Guest Speaker: Authur Aiu, Board of Water Supply

Having a guest speaker from the Board of Water Supply was a great idea. I had no idea what they really did in our home besides having the responsibility of how we use water for everyday life. The representative's name is Authur Aiu. He did not explain too much about himself, but he did a lot of explaining about the environment and what they do at the Board of Water Supply. What I thought was really interesting was the fact that they recycle our waste water. At first, it seemed gross because I thought he was telling me that my drinking water is the same water that I used to flush. That would be so gross. But, thank goodness that he told us that they have other use of this water. Also another thing that interested me was the fact that we have more than enough water currently. And if we ever ran out of the water that we get from the rain, then we could always desalinate salt water from the ocean. But the cost of water will rise by three to seven times.


Notes:
Wind blow rain clouds.
We have the perfect mountains that slows the rain cloud.
Most water that evaporates go through plants first.
Our island is like a huge sponge made of lava rocks which filters the rain water.
100 to 155 Million gallons of water are being pumped by the Board of Water Supply everyday. Population rises while the amount of water being pump is still steady.
As long as there's an ocean, we will never run out of water.
In 2020 to 2025, they are ready to desalt water.
De-salting water rates will rise 3-7x
De-salting water will be expensive with energy-wise.
We are recycling waste-water. They are not recycling waste-water for us to drink again. All of the 9 golf courses are using the recycled water.
Purple-pipe contains recycled water.
2-1/2 gallons per minute Facet
10 gallons per minute Hose
3 gallons per flush toliet but now 1.8 gallons per flush

Blue Planet Foundation Presentation

I thought that this was a very interesting presentation. In an effort to change Hawaii forever, Gary Gill, the Program Director came to show his arguments to try and give birth to an idea in the mind of the audience. It certainly caused me to think and reasoned. If green energy is such a good thing for Hawaii, then perhaps the government should consider changing the diesel or nuclear fuel that we use in Hawaii. But it's expensive. They promise that solar panels would eventually pay off itself, but tomorrow is not guaranteed. Paying over $20,000 just for a panel is scary. What if it breaks? What if it just all of the sudden stops working? But I was inspired by how he transport himself. Riding a bike, saving money and gas.

I believe that we should do something in terms of saving energy. Perhaps the average of conserving energy when it's not needed. Also doing something productive. Like, instead of being a couch potato and wasting electricity and also the energy inside of a person, they could be exercising or something.

Observation by Diamond Head

There was many things that I could sense while I was out in the wild. At first, I noticed that one of our student went off afar from the rest of us to smoke. So I smelled the nicotine and started to cough. It disrupted me and my sympathetic division told me to get away from the area. Using my prefrontal cortex, I fought my way through the dense poison that caused me to start coughing violently. I had to readjust myself to focus on what I can learn about nature. As I was away from the dense fog of nicotine, I found myself near a fenced ledge. I decided to study what was being guarded and saw that it was an old sewer pipe. I couldn't smell anything, but as I got near the bottom of the ledge it started to stink of something old and rotting. But there was no trail of sewage running out from the pipe. Perhaps the previous owners stop maintaining it. But the retching smell was still there. It looked as if it was to slide off the hill and onto an open space sewers. The land definitely did not look happy. The grass was a dead green color and the trees looked withered. It was if it did everything to merely survive. Tough. Tough is nature. There was a sense of no sympathy for the land. Even with a dry environment, I'm sure there are certain plants or cactus that would dwell mightily there.