 millions of people so they've kind of been hit with both barrels so that's how you can have drought and floods because many people think they're the opposite thing there's too much water there's too little water but it's actually the drying soil of a drought turns any rain water into a flood exactly so what you're doing is you're evaporating or getting rid of the moisture in sort of the top few layers of the soil and also evaporating it from the plants so there's not as much