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Ahupua'a/Waikiki Watershed

Though this site does not specifically pertain to the Waikiki Ahupua'a, it is a gigantic resource for ahupua'a related information in general.

The Ahupua'a Action Allance Online
http://geocities.com/ahupuaa/

Ahupuaa
http://www.ahupuaa.net/

Ala Wai Message Board
http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb369251

This is a message board for the Ala Wai Canal Watershed Improvement Project. As stated on webpage for the message board, "Topics deal with applying the Hawaiian Ahupua'a model to watershed management of the Ala Wai Canal watersheds in the Ahupua'a of Waikiki."

Ala Wai Canal Watershed Water Quality Improvement Project
http://www.csis.org/e4e/Mayor32Dashiell.html

Talks about the current state of the Ala Wai Canal, along with a brief history. Gives suggestions for improving the canal. It's sad to know that no such problems existed when the Waikiki ahupua'a was still around!

Waikiki, Restoring Hawaiianess
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/academics/stud_pubs/horizons/horizons97/eryan.html

This is a report done by a KCC student. The report primarily focuses on how to restore a sense of Hawaiianess to Waikiki, including a suggestion of intermixing lo'i and fishponds with the current modern infrastructure. Here's a link to a in accomplishing this task, which this person's report is partially based upon.

comprehensive list of suggestions
http://www.waikikinews.com/0999/0999.04.html

Voyages
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/news/kapio/3_17_97/if31797hpn.html

This site talks about the Diamond Head portion of the Waikiki Ahupua'a. It talks quite extensively about Diamond Head's history, covering the ahupua'a system in the process.

Kapio Online
http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/news/kapio/11_30_98/news/ahupuaa.html

This article from KCC's online newspaper briefly covers a trip made to Diamond Head for one of the Adopt an Ahupua'a's service learning events. Read students' experiences gained from this outing.