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"The plantations took 96-percent of all the water on all the islands by 1900, pretty much they still have it," Waiahole farmer Calvin Hoe said. Small farmers are urging state lawmakers to kill a bill that would allow businesses with revocable water permits to continue to divert water from certain streams around the state. "For 150 years our people have suffered by the hands of corporations who have basically run our streams dry," Attorney Kau'i Pratt-Aquino...