We actually had a shortage here in the Southeast a few years back. It was due to a drought that ran a little longer than usual, combined with a heatwave that was a little hotter than usual, combined with *mostly* the utter mismanagement by the gov't of the water resources that we have here locally.
During the "crisis", there were all sorts of dire predictions. "Never going to rain again". "We'll all go thirsty". "End of the world as we know it". But, as always, time passed and amazingly, it started to rain again. Last year we had probs with flooding - which, interestingly enough, didn't lead to end-times predictions. Go figure, I guess that "flooding" just didn't meet the "we're going to die of thirst" stories that the media had been running for the previous couple of years.
People are stupid.
As long as they are rich stupid people or "entertainers," I don't mind at all.