A recent report released by the Orange County Grand Jury called for the county’s two water agencies to join as “one voice” to manage water resources more efficiently, but some officials said consolidating the two might be too difficult to be beneficial.
The county’s water currently comes from two sources: the Orange County Water District, which draws water from a basin beneath north and central county, and the Municipal Water District of Orange County, which imports water from the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles.
The Grand Jury—which is made up of a group of citizens selected by Superior Court judges as a watchdog to the county government—argued in the June 22 report (pdf) that the single leadership could be established by either merging the two agencies or creating a new water authority altogether….
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