MAUI, HI — Drought conditions here have left a 30-million-gallon reservoir empty and a 100-million-gallon reservoir at 13 percent capacity, forcing officials to reroute the water supply.
Water will now come from treatment facilities in Hali’imaile and Makawao.
There will be a change in the water’s odor because Olinda used chloramines for disinfection and the Hali’imaile and Makawao facilities use chlorine.
In the first half of the year, most rain gauges in East Maui were recording less than 50 percent of normal.
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