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Valley Water outlines Water Supply Master Plan 2050, recommends lower-cost adaptive strategy
Summary
Santa Clara Valley Water District staff briefed the planning commission on the Water Supply Master Plan 2050, explaining projected shortages under multiple scenarios and the board's adoption of a 'lower cost' adaptive strategy that prioritizes potable reuse, diversified storage and annual progress reporting.
Santa Clara Valley Water District presented its Water Supply Master Plan 2050 to the Santa Clara County Planning Commission on March 26, describing projected shortages across four modeled future conditions and recommending an adaptive, lower-cost strategy adopted by the board.
Kirsten Strouff, assistant officer for Valley Water's water supply division, said the plan—developed over three years—models two demand and two imported-supply projections and shows the existing system would experience shortages in drought conditions without additional investments. Strouff…
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