Projects

Our Current Initiatives

Special thanks to Maui Nui Marine Resource Council and Born and Raised Earth for sponsoring the partnership that makes our work possible.

Featured Project

FlushAware App Development

Do you know what happens to the water that goes down the toilet and drain?

FlushAware.com is an online education system that teaches Maui and Oahu Island users the treatment level & destination of their flush, and provides actions for activism & improving life downstream. FlushAware.com is a web based demonstrator for a standalone mobile app coming in 2025.

We recently expanded FlushAware.com to our first Hawaiian neighbor island with Oahu in 2024.

Check out the FlushAware downstream species gallery to see over 200 high resolution images of Hawaii marine life from marine life photographer Keoki Stender @keokistender

“The sign of a healthy economy should be a drinkable river.”

— Li An Phoa

Jaime Oliveira Jaime Oliveira

FlushAware App Development

FlushAware is an online education system that teaches Maui and Oahu Island users the treatment level & destination of their flush, and provides actions for activism & improving life downstream. We are working on expansions of FlushAware.com to neighbor islands, starting with nine Oahu disposal methods that were launched in 2024.

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Jaime Oliveira Jaime Oliveira

The Hawaiian Limu Turf Scrubber Solution

Reef Power is working to realize the Maui Sustainable Reuse Pilot (MSRP) to demonstrate cost-effective ecologically engineered recycling of nutrient pollution from R-1 water into agriculture by growing native Hawaiian freshwater stream macroalgae limu in a human made stream bed system called an algal turf scrubber.

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Jaime Oliveira Jaime Oliveira

Ma'alaea Regional Wastewater Reclamation System

Reef Power provided Administrative Project Management duties for the Ma‘alaea Village Association Wastewater Working Group's Ma‘alaea Regional Wastewater Reclamation System (MRWRS) development project for several years starting in October 2021, and has organized the Ma’alaea Wastewater Association, a new mutual benefit nonprofit organization formed to build and operate MRWRS.

MRWRS will replace the failing and inadequate treatment systems and harmful disposal via injection wells with an advanced wastewater treatment system that is located away from the shoreline and outside the tsunami zone and uses 100% irrigation reuse disposal methods. An updated regional wastewater reclamation system is a core requirement to stabilize and restore reef ecosystems and recreational areas in Ma’alaea.

The project has been awarded Maui County Office of Economic Development and Hawaii state legislature Grant in Aid awards, and Maui County Mayor Bissen signed into law a FY2026 grant to continue development of MRWRS.

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Reduce pollution.
Restore reefs.

Your donation to Reef Power will be U.S. tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Our fiscal sponsor, Maui Nui Marine Resource Council, will process your donation and ensure that it goes directly to support important Reef Power projects.