Marin water supplier defends drought response in report
Marin Municipal Water District is pushing back on a Marin County Civil Grand Jury report asserting the agency nearly faced depleting its reservoirs this year because it had not taken past steps to build a more resilient water supply. The grand jury assessment lacked credibility, included factual errors and is now being used to incite more critique of the district’s handling of the drought last year, the district Board of Directors said. The grand jury report came after two winters of drought in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 threatened to deplete local reservoirs as soon as mid-2022.