Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 10, Number 2, 1 February 1993 — People's Water Conference focuses on homesteads [ARTICLE]

People's Water Conference focuses on homesteads

"Hawaiian Homelands Reserved Water Rights and the State Water Code" is the focus of the Ninth Annual People's Water Conference, to be held Saturday, Feb. 13 in Likeke Hall on the grounds of Kawaiaha'o Church in Honolulu. The conference will address pressing issues involving the implementation of the 1987 state water code and the exercise of Hawaiian selfgovernance and control of critical natural resources. C!uest speakers at the day-long forum include Mililani Trask, Kia'āina of Ka Lāhui Hawai'i; deputy attorney general William Tam, a specialist in legal issues involving water; Williamson Chang, of the Richardson School of Law; and Bishop Estate Trustee Oswald Stender. For more information or to register for the conference, eontact conference chair Martha Black at 395-2127 or Richard Port at 941-9624.