When California had the drought a decade ago I asked during a Mother Jones editorial meeting where the water had gone and everyone laughed at me and said “everyone knows where it went” and I said “I don’t know where the water went but I know that it didn’t disappear so it went somewhere” and they said “I don’t have time for this” and ran away and it became a running gag internally because I was like “they can’t answer this basic question” and was so obstinate about it that when I ended up having to edit any stories about the drought I would constantly add edit notes like “must answer: where did the water go” and they would have to wait and find another editor to avoid me because they were like “this editor is a moron” and then after five years or whatever I got this text from one of them and they were like “I was talking to a scientist recently and one thing led to another and I mentioned that there this prick at the company obsessed with where the water went and they said ‘actually we just found the water’ and they sent me the study and there is an answer to your question.’”