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Fresh Water: From the Mountains To Your Drinking Glass
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By the Numbers: Water Production 2012
ONE
How many pigs it takes to uproot a forest area the size of a football field in one week.
10
Percent of priority watershed areas statewide currently protected.
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12
Percent of rainfall decline in Hawaii in past 20 years.
551
Number of watersheds across the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago.
$14 billion
Estimated net present value of Oahu’s Koolau forests to provide water quality and recharge, climate control, biodiversity and cultural, aesthetic, recreational and commercial values to residents and visitors.
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85 million
Gallons of estimated groundwater recharge lost daily in East Hawaii Island due to invasive plants.
9.5
The average response, on a scale of 1 (disagree) to 10 (agree), by Hawaii residents surveyed on the statement: “Hawaii forests are important to Hawaii’s fresh water supply.”
Sources: State Department of Land and Natural Resources; Hawaii Association of Watershed Partnerships (www.hawp.org); University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization, 1997; U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5078; 2011 Rainfall Atlas of Hawaii, University of Hawaii, Department of Geography; and OmniTrak Watershed Survey, October 2011.
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