Yes, but Gov. Nuisance probably won’t admit it.
They seem to like keeping tight controls over resources.
“Saving us from ourselves”, I suppose, and our habits of using too much water by Govt. standards.
There seem to be two reasons for the ‘tight controls—’maintaining fascist, delusional control via the climate change hysteria narrative as well as to maintain the high water rates blown up during the drought and never reduced (to my knowledge anywhere in the state.)