WEST MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Maui County confirms it is interested in buying a water distribution system that has been supplying the westside for more than a century.

The seller is a company that is being sued for leaving its customers dry.

A notice posted online states Kapalua Golf will be closed for 60 days.

The world-renown golf course is now brown and barren.

“It did highlight for the bigger world to see what’s happening here,” said lifelong West Maui resident Lauren Palakiko.

Palakiko says the fight over water in West Maui has been happening for more than a century.

Now the owners of Kapalua Golf are suing Maui Land & Pineapple Company stating the company is doing a terrible job as the Honokohau Ditch System’s owner.

It is a system that businesses like them, residents, and kalo

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