Per the article, they already pump 360,000 gallons per day. So this dispute is about a an increase of just 216,000 gallons per day and it has taken them almost

Per the article, they already pump 360,000 gallons per day. So this dispute is about a an increase of just 216,000 gallons per day and it has taken them almost 2 years to go through the permit process. For reference, an olympic sized swimming pool holds 660,000 gallons of water. So even after this increase, they are still drawing less than one pool's worth of water.