By Thomas Heaton, Blaze Lovell And Caitlin Thompson\/Honolulu Civil Beat Sarah Ghio leans on the rear bumper of her dead silver SUV, taking a sip of juice to wet her chapped lips. It\u2019s her sole alternative since she returned to her flood-stricken North Shore O\u02bbahu farm, where tap water remained unsafe to drink. You can see the exhaustion in her face, hear it in her voice. Ghio lives off the grid on leased land once owned by Dole Food\u2019s sister company Castle and Cooke, a small piece of more than 300 acres still framed by the pineapple plantation\u2019s century-plus-old irrigation ditches. Invasive weeds have, over time, strangled that ditch system, which merges with natural streams to carry water through farm fields and out to the ocean. If the Kona low… <\/p>\n
By Thomas Heaton, Blaze Lovell And Caitlin Thompson\/Honolulu Civil Beat Sarah Ghio leans on the rear bumper of her dead silver SUV, taking a sip of juice to wet her chapped lips. It\u2019s her sole alternative since she returned to her flood-stricken North Shore O\u02bbahu farm, where tap water remained unsafe to drink. You can see the exhaustion in her face, hear it in her voice. Ghio lives off the grid on leased land once owned by Dole Food\u2019s sister company Castle and Cooke, a small piece of more than 300 acres still framed by the pineapple plantation\u2019s century-plus-old irrigation ditches. Invasive weeds have, over time, strangled that ditch system, which merges with natural streams to carry water through farm fields and out to the ocean. If the Kona low... <\/p>\n