Download or read book Geology and Ground-water Resources of the Island of Niihau, Hawaii written by Harold Thornton Stearns and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports on the domestic water supply derived from rain caught from roofs and some ground wells. Overall, the island has high aridity, unfavorable geologic structures, continuous deposition of salt spray, and abundant authigenic salts in the lake beds.