You're trying to manipulate language.
"Is drying up" is way different than "levels are low". Drying up is as permanent as something can get.
"Is drying up" is way different than "levels are low". Drying up is as permanent as something can get.
Until it gets wet again, right? Both droughts and floods can have disastrous consequences. They're always news. If you're upset because you're seeing increasingly frequent reports of increasingly drastic weather extremes, it might be because the frequency and extremity of weather events are increasing. And even if we knew this was going to be happening for several decades, the fact that it's happening today, and the impacts of those events, are news.
The money dried up
the aquifer dried up
the relationship dried up
the oil dried up....
People use 'levels are low' or something similar for temporary conditions.
I'm not really going to debate this anymore.