Aʻo · Edukasyon
Education
Plain-language wai literacy: stream ecology, kalo and rice heritage irrigation, and how a permit actually gets decided.
Maui County · Hawaiʻi
Wai is life.Agos is the flow.
A Hawaiian and Filipino coalition restoring the streams of Maui — through education, policy, watershed planning, and community-built technology. Two words for water, one current.
He inoa · Ang pangalan
Two languages carried the same word downstream.
Wai — Hawaiian for fresh water, the root of waiwai, wealth. Agos — Filipino for the flow, the current that will not be held. Kanaka ʻŌiwi families and the sakadas who came to the cane fields have shared these valleys for over a century. The same ditches carried water past both our homes.
WAI AGOS exists so that history becomes shared power at the hearing table — not a divide someone else can use.
Four channels
Where the coalition puts its hands.
Kānāwai · Patakaran
Policy
Testimony clinics, translated hearing briefs, and coalition comment on Maui County water use permits and diversions.
Hoʻolālā · Pagpaplano
Planning
Watershed-scale planning with kupuna and farming families — restoration mapping, ahupuaʻa and barangay-style mutual aid.
ʻEnehana · Teknolohiya
Technology
Open stream-flow dashboards, community sensor networks, and an accessible archive of diversion and drought records.
Mai uka a i kai · From mountain to sea
How we move.
01
Listen
Talk story sessions in Wailuku, Kahului, Haʻikū, and Lahaina — in ʻōlelo, Ilocano, Tagalog, and English.
02
Learn
Free monthly wai school: watershed science, water law, and the plantation history that shaped both our families.
03
Lead
Residents testify, file, map, and steward — with a coalition standing behind every submission.
Wai Data · Tubig na Datos
Put the numbers on the table.
Every stream argument in Maui County ends with the same question: how much water is actually left? We gather the gage readings, the diversion records, and the community's own measurements into one open dashboard — so a kupuna, a student, and a lawyer can all read the same chart and say the same thing out loud.
01
Read the flow
Monthly means and daily lows for every monitored stream, with the living-flow target drawn straight onto the chart.
02
Trace the pull
Match a drop in the stream to the diversion record and permit number that caused it — county filings linked.
03
Bring it to the hearing
Export a one-page brief, a CSV, or a slide you can read into testimony in any of our four languages.
Iao Stream
Sample seriesMonthly mean flow, cubic feet per second
Flow above targetFlow below target
Illustrative sample data, not live gage readings. Sources we pull from: USGS and state gages, Maui County Commission of Water Resources diversion records, state water management criteria, and coalition sensor readings.
Hourly
Gage readings refreshed on the hour, with gaps flagged.
CSV + API
Download the raw numbers. No login, no licence.
4 languages
English, ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, Ilocano, Tagalog.
Free
Open to every family on Maui, always.
Mālama i ka poʻe mālama · Alagaan ang tagapag-alaga
Stewarding stewards.
Every year our schools hand our keiki a diploma and a direction. The ones who already know they want to give back to the water are the ones we lose — to the mainland, to the resort floor, to the job that pays while the kuleana waits. This is our promise that the next generation never has to choose between a living and a stream: every graduate who asks for a path leaves school with a named mentor, a paid first role on the water, and someone who keeps showing up after the first year.
Mentorship
One kupuna, one practitioner, one graduate
A full-year pairing: stream walks, permit readings, hearing nights, and a phone that gets answered. Not a photo op — a relationship.
Final-year students and grads within two years
Paid pathways
Work that pays from week one
Stipended internships in restoration days, sensor builds, archive work, and data entry — because a calling should not require free labor.
Graduates 18–24 on Maui
Guidance
Someone who has read the form
Advising on college and trade applications, water-law certificates, county and state hiring, and how to write testimony that gets read.
Any graduate, any age
Opportunities
A standing list of openings
A coalition board of apprenticeships, crew jobs, research assistantships, and grant-funded roles — posted before they hit the public sites.
Everyone in the network
Paid, not unpaid
First roles carry a stipend. We will not ask a family to subsidize our mission.
Home first
We build the path here, so taking it does not mean leaving Maui.
For the whole year
Someone stays in touch past graduation day. The relationship does not end at the ceremony.
E komo mai · Halina
The water returns when the people move together.
Get hearing alerts, wai school dates, and testimony templates for Maui County — in English, ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, Ilocano, and Tagalog.