I swear to God people will only display a modicum of care when disaster already has happened lol
Not a single drop of rain for weeks and ground water levels are rapidly declining but people don’t care because it’s nice weather at least. The government can’t be arsed to do something unless it’s to save farmers.
And when we inevitably have to ration our shit maybe then we will notice something’s off. But it’s not really popular to argue against good weather, I know.
Partly mismanagement, partly societal factors. We are a huge agricultural area and farming, especially cattle farming, takes up enormous amounts of water. It’s the same in The Netherlands who probably has an even larger cattle farming industry.
Lawn fetishism also plays a part. Gotta have green grass which is useless for biodiversity and a really bad ground water retainer.
Also, it really is not raining at all. We are normally having 16% of rain in March over here. But this year it is around 2%. We haven’t even seen rain for april I think.