Three months ago, Santa Clara County’s largest water agency voted to kill a $3.2 billion plan to build a huge new reservoir in the southern part of the county near Pacheco Pass. The Pacheco Reservoir would have been the largest new reservoir built in the Bay Area since 1998 when Los Vaqueros Reservoir was constructed in eastern Contra Costa County. … This week, the district, a government agency in San Jose that provides water to 2 million South Bay residents, approved a roadmap for the next 25 years that combines new reservoir projects, groundwater storage and recycled water. The price tag: $3.9 billion.

Other water recycling and supply news:

• Governing magazine: A California city’s groundbreaking path to water self-sufficiency
• AZ Big Media: Blog: Potable reuse: From ‘nice to have’ to ‘need to have’​