Editing Maui (section)

== Development ==
[[File:KahakuloaHead_sml.jpg|left|thumb|Kahakuloa Head near the tiny village of [[Kahakuloa, Hawaii|Kahakuloa]] on the north side of west Maui]]
The island experienced rapid population growth through 2007. At the time, Kīhei was one of the most rapidly growing towns in the United States. The island attracted many retirees, with accompanying service providers. Population growth produced strains, including traffic, housing cost/availability, and access to water.

In the 2000s, controversies raged over whether to allow continued real-estate development. [[Vacation rentals]] in residential neighborhoods became a flashpoint - many were unpermitted, and were later closed after enforcement escalated. The [[Hawaii Superferry]] briefly offered interisland service, before it was banned for not having completed an [[Environmental impact statement|EIS]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Supreme Court ruling forces Hawaii Superferry shutdown, layoffs |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/03/23/story5.html?page=all |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718233006/http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2009/03/23/story5.html?page=all |archive-date=2014-07-18 |access-date=2013-06-27}}</ref>

In 2016, Maui residents convinced officials to switch to organic pesticides for highway applications after they learned that label requirements for [[glyphosate formulation]]s had not been followed.<ref name="time2">{{Cite magazine |title=How Activists Are Restricting Use of a Major Pesticide |url=https://time.com/4295272/glyphosate-pesticide-roundup-hawaii-activists/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180129085757/http://time.com/4295272/glyphosate-pesticide-roundup-hawaii-activists/ |archive-date=2018-01-29 |access-date=2018-08-15 |magazine=Time}}</ref>

=== Water supply ===
{{US Census population
| title= Maui County {{R|PopRef}}
| 1950 = 40103
| 1960 = 35717
| 1970 = 38691
| 1980 = 62823
| 1990 = 91361
| 2000 = 117644
| 2010 = 144444
| 2020 = 168307
}}
The new millennium brought droughts, increasing pressure on the {{okina}}Īao [[aquifer]], with withdrawals rising above 18 million U.S. gallons (68,000 m<sup>3</sup>) per day. Recent estimates indicate that Maui has a potential supply of potable water around 476 million U.S. gallons (1,800,000 m<sup>3</sup>) per day, {{Citation needed|date=June 2017}} virtually all of which drains into the ocean.

Water for agriculture comes mostly from East Maui streams, routed through a network of tunnels and ditches dug by [[Chinese immigration to Hawaii|Chinese]] laborers in the 19th century.

In 2006, [[Paia, Hawaii|Paia]] petitioned the county to avoid mixing in treated water from wells known to be contaminated with [[1,2-dibromoethane]] and [[1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane]] from former pineapple cultivation.<ref>''Environment Hawaii'', 1996</ref> Agriculture companies were released from liability for these chemicals.<ref>County of Maui, 1999</ref> In 2009, the [[Office of Hawaiian Affairs]] and others successfully argued in court that sugar companies should reduce the amount of water they take from four streams.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pending ruling restores water to 4 streams on Maui |url=http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20090412_Pending_ruling_restores_water_to_4_streams_on_Maui.html |access-date=10 October 2014 |work=Honolulu Star-Advertiser}}</ref>