Hawaii

My brother is currently living in Hawaii studying leptospirosis. Wiki Definition of leptospirosis: The infection is commonly transmitted to humans by allowing water that has been contaminated by animal urine to come in contact with unhealed breaks in the skin, eyes or with the mucous membranes. He's a scientist (I'm proud of him). He sent me this pic taken by his G10 (I'm jealous of his camera). And his description below...

Caught this rainbow over hanalei bay, looking southwest, early in the
morning. The bay stays pretty calm in the summer. Some people stay
anchored there for months at a time. It's controversial though because
the anchors damage the reef and many of the boats dump there sewage into
the bay. But actually, most of the homes in the bay are on a septic
system and when they get a lot of rain (which happens all the time) the
septic tanks back up and spill over delivering there share of
"nutrients" into the bay. The added nutrients increase bacterial loads
in the bay, and also increase algal blooms which and can deplete oxygen
levels in the water ultimately damaging the reef and therefore the whole
system.

Some groups argue that the town needs a sewage treatment plant or else
the bay will continue to degrade as a result of aging septic systems.

Others argue that a treatment facility will allow for further
development of the bay and ultimately impact the region even more.