I was pouring myself a glass of tap water the other day and thinking exactly what you wrote.
When the local "news" (lol) programs were threatening us with a severe water shortage a couple or three years ago, taking film crews out to the reservoirs and lakes and showing the *frightening* water levels, predicting death and mayhem, so to speak, I asked the Lord if I needed to pray about this -- was it really that bad? I had the feeling they were beating drums for a manufactured disaster. After praying over time, I just had the strongest sense that they were in an old playbook and were not basing their projections on anything but fear not founded in fact, on the assumption they needed to tell us to ration our toilet flushes or something.
It rained good and plenty when we needed it.
Wash, rinse, repeat. I think they finally realized how silly they were being and knocked it off.
When the local "news" (lol) programs were threatening us with a severe water shortage a couple or three years ago, taking film crews out to the reservoirs and lakes and showing the *frightening* water levels, predicting death and mayhem, so to speak, I asked the Lord if I needed to pray about this -- was it really that bad? I had the feeling they were beating drums for a manufactured disaster. After praying over time, I just had the strongest sense that they were in an old playbook and were not basing their projections on anything but fear not founded in fact, on the assumption they needed to tell us to ration our toilet flushes or something.
I know of one lake that may or may not be drained by man-made means. Alder. When I first got here, they were draining it (other lakes too, maybe?) .... not sure why, maybe fear of flooding... I don't know. Maybe they're not "wasting water" anymore.