Legal analysts: Board of Water Supply's $1.2B claim with Navy likely headed to lawsuit
Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Navy had six months to respond.
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Under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Navy had six months to respond.
WASHINGTON — Not since the dark day at Pearl Harbor that drew America into World War II has there been so much trouble in paradise.
"They looked me in the eye and told me… 'We would never poison our own people,'" one former water resource management commissioner said. "And they lied. They lied about all of it."
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The island home to Hawaii's capital may be surrounded by ocean, but years-long drought conditions, tourist activities and contamination are jeopardizing the island's only source of freshwater.