WAI is featured prominently in the video portion, and we helped set up the cesspool conversion that they filmed using an innovative technology that WAI helped get approved in Hawai'i.

Associated Press, July 5, 2023

Stuart Coleman explains how to reverse the damage from the state’s 83,000 cesspools, including using treated wastewater for irrigation and landscaping.

Hawai'i Business Magazine, September 25, 2023

Kate Furby, writes a short biography on Stuart Coleman and his leadership Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations and what inspired him to get into this dirty issue.

Ka Pili Kai, January 2023

Stuart Coleman, Executive Director of WAI reports on the where Hawai'i stands in the cesspool crisis. He highlights an opportunity to become a national leader in new sanitation technologies and policies.

Civil Beat, September 2022

Stuart Coleman reports on the where Hawaii stands in the cesspool crisis. Within this article he highlights the future opportunities for Hawai'i in becoming a national leader in new sanitation technologies and policies relating to wastewater management.

National Onsite Wastewater Recycling Association: NOWRA The Onsite Journal

Executive Director, Stuart Coleman, reports on the state of Hawai’i’s cesspool crisis. He highlights an opportunity for the state to become a national leader in new sanitation technologies and policies, emphasizing why change needs to happen sooner rather than later.

Star Advertiser, April 2022

Listen to this talk story with WAI Executive Director Stuart Coleman and Christina Laney Mitre of Smart Living Hawaii Foundation, a sustainability hub for Hawai'i. In this podcast, they go over cesspools & failing septic tanks and how they harm our drinking water, oceans, and environment.

Smart Living Hawai'i, October 2021

Ulupono Initiative reports on WAI’s Second Annual Innovations in Sanitation Convening which was held in August 2021 to bring together key stakeholders, technology innovators, and wastewater experts to discuss the problems and possible solutions for the conversion of Hawai'i’s 88,000 cesspools.

Ulupono Initiative, September 2021

Star Advertiser reported on Hawai'i’s 88,000 cesspools across the state and the mandate that requires cesspools to be upgraded, converted, or connected to a sewer connection by 2050. The article explains the benefits that cesspool conversions has on human and environmental health, alternatives to cesspools like incineration toilets, and also outlines the financial challenges that homeowners face when converting.

Star Advertiser, August 2021

In this article, Star Advertiser talks with WAI’s Executive Director Stuart Coleman about the 2nd Annual Innovations in Sanitation Convening. The Convening, held in mid-August in person & virtually, covered regulation reforms, financial assistance for conversions, policy recommendations, and presentations from our technology partners.

Star Advertiser, August 2021

WAI’s Executive Director Stuart Coleman joined HPR’s Catherine Cruz on The Conversation to talk about WAI’s focus on bringing high tech solutions to help with sewage pollution across the state. Listen to or read the article to hear about more about Hawai'i’s sewage pollution and what WAI is working on in wastewater technologies.

Honolulu Public Radio, July 2021

In this follow up article to Stuart’s last Civil beat article he discusses where Hawaii wastewater is headed in the future and how local and federal government needs to be involved with making large and small scale changes.

“With the federal government’s commitment to rebuilding our decaying infrastructure, now is the time to develop mobile, community-scale sanitation systems that recycle the valuable resources and nutrients in our liquid and solid waste. Instead of pumping nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium out to sea, we can recycle them on land to enrich our soils (instead of expensive, synthetic fertilizers).”

Civil Beat, June 2021

In this interview with WAI’s Executive Director Stuart Coleman, Dan Amato from Surfrider Foundation’s Blue Water Task force, and DLNR’s Emma Yeun talking about “How we can improve our nearshore waters.” Watch the live recording to learn more about how the problem of wastewater in Hawai'i is a multifaceted problem that is requiring input from many diverse groups.

Honolulu Civil Beat Interview, June 2021

“In this case study partnership with the Reef Resilience Network, the WAI team outlines the cesspool problem in Hawai'i and lists potential solutions including policy changes, innovative technologies, and the Work-4-Water initiative.”

Reef Resilience Network, April 2021

“With a deep interest in coastal and marine resources, and a recognition of the herculean task of reducing wastewater discharge from cesspools, I [Joachim Schneider] am excited to be spending most of my fellowship working for WAI and helping in their projects to improve the wastewater situation in Hawai'i.”

Sea Grant, March 2021

In this Q&A, Stuart talks through the who, what, when, and where of his journey to WAI, sharing the connection of his deep love of surfing and the ocean to the work he does today, and why he thinks WAI can help make Hawai'i a leader in new sanitation technologies.

Omidyar Fellows, February 2021

In the midst of this crisis, we have an opportunity to diversify our economy and an obligation to create a workforce that is not dependent on the ebb and flow of tourists on our beaches.

Civil Beat, July 2020

Wastewater Alternatives and Innovations plans to help the state address sewage pollution by finding ways to convert cesspools to effective treatment systems.

US News, March 2020

Some cesspool-dense areas are lower-income areas while others are in some high-income areas — some of the nicest neighborhoods on Oahu and Maui, with homes valued at many millions of dollars, are still on cesspools.

Clean Technica, February 2020

Hold your nose if you must but don’t look away if you love the ocean or swim in it. This story is about cesspools in Hawai'i, a problem that was kicked down the road for decades but one we are finally dealing with.

Hawai'i Business Magazine, September 2019