> It's becoming increasingly clear that pumping water into a lake is not, in fact, the main driver of flooding.

> Just look at the recent past. We've been pumping water into the lake since 08 without any appreciable flooding.

> Then the dam broke and BOOM! floodings rocket double digits.

The war-induced shortages may be the proximate cause of inflation, but maybe it wasn't a good idea to keep pumping that water in the first place, in particular, with the knowledge that dams always break sooner or later anyway.