There wasn't really anything preventing them from imposing water restrictions earlier. They do like to make big political gestures. If the crunched numbers warrant it, why aren't they already at stage 2? It's not as if there's some force beyond their ken that stops them from increasing water restrictions now, and easing off if May and June are wetter than usual.
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