Just two months after the Kona low storms, another potential disaster is playing out on the rural southwest side of Hawaiʻi island. But this time, instead of too much water, farmers and other rural residents suddenly don’t have enough. Saturday’s 6.0 magnitude earthquake crushed and burst water catchment systems — large wooden and metal tanks that hold the rainwater pumped into homes and farm irrigation systems. The county provides very little water to the predominantly agricultural region and

Tag-uri: Agricultura