I'm German. It was on the news that Californians were instructed to conserve water in their households because of annual droughts.

I feel like this is the other way around. 95% of what I hear about California water shortage stuff has been from people outside of the state.

That and wildfires 500 miles away from me are about all people outside of the state ever seen to hear about. From the way they tell it it sounds like they're concerned that I'm going to die of thirst.