Every day, I’m scouring the Internet for land use and environmental news from around the state and around the world that means something for us here in Hawaii. Noteworthy today: water restored to East Maui streams, concerns about mining on Kauai and a day without shadows.

• Kudos to Maui News reporter Chris Hamilton, who it seems stuck around to the bitter end of the Water Commission’s meeting Tuesday evening. A compromise was struck for East Maui’s streams, with millions of gallons of day restored, but nobody is completely satisfied. The fight isn’t over yet.

• Kauai citizens are questioning mining activities in the culturally and environmentally sensitive Koloa-Poipu area on the island’s South Shore, The Garden Island reports.

• Big Island residents complain that akule fishermen damaged the reef near Keauhou Bay.

• Yesterday was “Lahaina Noon” — the day where the sun is at the highest point of the sky and casts no shadow. The next such day is July 17, the Molokai News reports.

• A group of indigenous Malaysians on Wednesday were awarded $1.9 million after they were forced off their ancestral land to make way for an airport highway, according to Agence France-Presse.

• Responding to a land boom that has forced from their homes and created a public outcry, China has proposed rules to prevent unchecked development, the New York Times reports.

• Nestle is running a test to see if they can harvest 100 million gallons from a spring for bottled water without harming endangered fish, the Wall Street Journal Reports. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say “Good luck!”

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