Santa Cruz County’s water agencies need more cooperation, a plan to recycle more wastewater and a united approach to adapt to drought, a recent Santa Cruz County Civil Grand Jury report concluded.

Since the report’s release this spring, water agency leaders said that some collaboration is already happening. Some water leaders added that the report’s recommendations have the potential to complicate an already complex system of water agencies — and it might not solve future water-scarcity problems. 

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