Which is insane. Even here, we are starting to see more resistance to water management measures like lawn watering bans. It's like the only way some people will get it is when they are dehydrated and hungry due to severe drought. At least the Great Lakes will last us a while here in Ontario, but building pipelines gets expensive and the more water gets taken out of that system, the more risk there is of problems downstream. And it's also a shipping route so low water levels could impact that, too. Better to get ahead of it rather than let it slide into another mess.
People are difficult to teach anything ... it led to a book that raised the idea that the stem o' logical nature of such a tree was evil ...
It hangs on like a thorn bush ... thus mother trees ... prickly items ... Lo' cust ...