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PROVIDENCE _ The state Water Resources Board today fired its general manager Juan Mariscal.

William Penn, the new water board chairman, and J. Michael Sullivan, director of the state Department of Environmental Management, who sits on the board, instigated the action. The vote was 5 to 4.

Penn, Mariscal's leading critic, said the board was not doing enough to develop new water supplies.

Mariscal's defenders said that Mariscal did a good job, adding that water supply efforts will now be hampered because today's action cuts the beleaguered agency down to a staff of just three. It had nine employees three years ago.

One board member, retired state Planner Daniel Varin, called the dismissal an "outrage."

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