MIN CHARTER 2018-10-12 (2018-2020)

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Hawai`i County Charter Commission -4 October 12, 2018 those are under the process of either getting replaced or upgraded at certain times. But our new ones are specifically designed for the seismic zone that they'll be in. So if you notice on the lower left, the seismic tables and tendons and whatnot all go factor into the design and construction of these water tanks to make thein safe during earthquake events. The next slide shows our typical water main. So a lot of times our—again, we're sight unseen. All the water mains are typically buried underground. Here's a booster pump station next. And ultimately our jurisdiction ends at the water meter. So once you're on private property, that's basically the customer's kuleana to do what they need to do to get it to their house, commercial business and whatnot, yeah. Alright, so up until recent tunes, basically that's what we were focused on, but understanding the high level of—well basically we're a major stakeholder just in water in general. So we understand that we also need to be stewards of the resource, so a lot of our newer efforts now are focused on sustainability. We're looking at it from a four -pronged approach. Conservation, which is more on the education side as far as trying to educate our customers how they can use water more wisely, more efficiently and things like that. Use hopefully appropriate landscaping that is appropriate for the area that you reside in. Other things, water audits and water loss management. That's on our side. So basically, we don't want to have a whole bunch of water main leaks. Or basically on our utility side we want to snake sure that we're not wasting these resources. So that's what the water audit and water loss management program is primarily geared for. Then watershed protection. You know, everybody wants to make sure we have enough water, enough good water, for our future generations. How we are working on that is, we're partnering with other government agencies and private entities to make sure that we can sustain this resource for multi -generations down the road. Things like the Fresh Water Initiative, which is a component of the Hawai`i Community Foundation, so we're active members of that Freshwater Council. They have that goal for 100 million gallons of recapturing water either through watershed protection, conservation or reuse. We also partnered with the `Iki Wai effort, a $20 million grant from EPSCoR (Education & Workforce. Education & Opportunities) I believe, through the University of Hawai`i. We're also working with Hawaii Community Foundation directly and with Hugh Hiro, to have them help us identify which watersheds might be beneficial for us to help protect, help the State protect, so that we can ensure that for drinking water customers, that resource will be protected in the long term. Page 25