Like everything else, the scarcity of something is POWER. Controlling water is a big deal.
Right. The Left, the lovers and purveyors of totalitarian power, will use every excuse to obtain it. Totalitarian power is also shown to be the #1 cause of critical shortages in a society.
The Left always has been, is now, and always will be, the CAUSE of misery, oppression, and shortages.
Which is why statists like to ruin things - this way they "have to" take it over, you know, for the children or whatever.