That's a small part of the problem. Resource management or should I say mismanagement is the big problem. Here in water rich Western Washington you have four different state agencies claiming water rights authority. They are constantly butting heads and strutting around bullying counties that also claim authority over water. Then through in the Fed's and various Indian Tribes, nothing gets accommplished.
Eastern Washington farmers depend on irrigation and plans have been drawn for years to utilize massive underground naturally occurring caverns for water storage. Can't get it done, to much agency intervention.
It's like everything else, when the government gets involved, it gets FUBAR.
How would you propose rights to resources be allocated?
At the very least, government involvement is necessary to resolve conflicting claims.
In areas where water is less abundant, those claims are more hotly contested.
I'm simply advocating technology that would increase supply for those regions where availability is becoming constrained.