Does the SPM take homelessness into account? If it has weighting for higher rates of unhoused individuals, the correlation could simply be with climate. CA and TX for example are wealthy, have higher than average homelessness, and have few days below freezing annually in their major population centers.

"But didn't you hear? There's a water CYCLE! obviously all this water will definitely refill the aquifer faster than we're emptying it EVENTUALLY!"

People are so stupid sometimes it makes me want to cry.....

This is what's been going on for decades. Nebraska has been doing this PLUS draining the ogallala aquifer to irrigate corn for a generation. We know the aquifer is emptying at an alarming rate and the state government is just like "eh, I'm sure technology will save us someday in the future, PUMP MORE WATER!" Such a "fuck the kids" mentality and I just don't get it.....