[CPEO-MEF] FUEL, NATIVE PEOPLE: "Fuel in water deepens Native Hawaiians' distrust of military"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fuel in water deepens Native Hawaiians' distrust of military
Native Hawaiians revere water in all its forms as the embodiment of a Hawaiian god

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER 
Associated Press
March 3, 2022

HONOLULU -- A well-known adage in Hawaiian, ola i ka wai, means “water is life.”

Native Hawaiians revere water in all its forms as the embodiment of one of the Hawaiian pantheon’s four principal gods.

The resource is so valuable that to have it in abundance means prosperity. The Hawaiian word for water — wai — is repeated in the word for wealth — waiwai.

So when the Navy confirmed petroleum from one of its fuel tank facilities had leaked into Pearl Harbor’s tap water, many Native Hawaiians were not just concerned, they were hurt and offended.

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For the entire story, see
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/tainted-water-shatters-native-hawaiians-trust-military-83221724

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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