[Aurornis]

> It's why often farm water usage is not nearly as bad as it superficially seems, and why farm water usage of a river can be multiples of the actual river flow

This is beside the point.

The issue is the reservoirs. If the reservoirs and sources are being depleted faster than they replenish then their levels go down.

The water crises are about the reservoirs and sources going down. We don’t care how much farmers use in absolute numbers as long as it’s not overwhelming the capacity of the systems to replenish themselves.