There's never been a drought there historically. The geological and geographical realities simply don't permit it. Maybe if the population suddenly increased by a hundred times over, there could be some water issues. Not for a lack of water, but lack of infrastructure. The government/media (they're one and the same there) just decided a couple of years ago that water access was a huge problem. There are no academic or scientific papers claiming any risk of water shortage, because there is no scientific basis for it.
So I'm curious as to their purpose. Sure, the politicians can hire some friends and relatives to well paid government jobs to plan for a drought that will never come. The media can keep a percentage of their readers in the state of anxiety that they love. And probably it can help in having a part of the population take their minds of real problems that would require real solutions. But those reasons sound kind of meagre. Is it a bid to nationalize and privatize the water supply for further control and profit? Could be.
More than likely, you'll find that there's solid evidence that the rate of fresh water replenishment is in a negative trajectory.
You seem to blindly assume that any government is completely right in everything they do and say. If I wrote that there was a huge drought in my region and the government denies it, then you would argue here that the government is right and the cattle dying of dehydration are just reactionaries.
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There's never been a drought there historically. The geological and geographical realities simply don't permit it. Maybe if the population suddenly increased by a hundred times over, there could be some water issues. Not for a lack of water, but lack of infrastructure. The government/media (they're one and the same there) just decided a couple of years ago that water access was a huge problem. There are no academic or scientific papers claiming any risk of water shortage, because there is no scientific basis for it.
So I'm curious as to their purpose. Sure, the politicians can hire some friends and relatives to well paid government jobs to plan for a drought that will never come. The media can keep a percentage of their readers in the state of anxiety that they love. And probably it can help in having a part of the population take their minds of real problems that would require real solutions. But those reasons sound kind of meagre. Is it a bid to nationalize and privatize the water supply for further control and profit? Could be.
You seem to blindly assume that any government is completely right in everything they do and say. If I wrote that there was a huge drought in my region and the government denies it, then you would argue here that the government is right and the cattle dying of dehydration are just reactionaries.