@martijn I'm a little bit confused by your last sentence, because is it not the farmers who wanted everything pumped away asap so they can work the lands sooner, causing this issue in the first place?

But we already knew this.. and we already knew the droughts were going to become more prevalent... why the heck have they still not acted on it?

I'm sorry, but I have less and less sympathy for those farmers, on top of the terror-farmers with the dumping and burning of trash and asbest...