Marin Water Agency May Loosen Drought Restrictions: Report

MARIN COUNTY, CA — An idea that would have been unthinkable just 10 weeks ago is suddenly getting serious consideration.

After a series of atmospheric rivers unloaded on Marin, the county’s largest water agency is considering loosening of some water restrictions, The Marin Independent Journal reports.

The Marin Municipal Water District, which serves around 190,000 central and southern Marin residents, issued a barrage of restrictions as an ongoing drought plunged the North Bay county into a crisis.

But recent storms have boosted the MMWD’s water supply from less than a third in mid-October to 93 percent as of Thursday, the IJ reports.

Regardless of how the agency proceeds, Marin will have to adapt to a new normal, Board President Cynthia Koehler said.

“We’re not going back to the way it used to be because the climate is not the way it used to be,” Koehler said Tuesday, according to the report.

Read more in The Marin Independent Journal