It's possible that in terms of volume of precipitation, urban areas get as much or more (https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/december/mather-lecture-marshall-sheph

It's possible that in terms of volume of precipitation, urban areas get as much or more (https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/december/mather-lecture-marshall-shepherd-environment-cities-atmospheric-science/#:~:text=Leveraging%20rainfall&text=The%20urban%20heat%20island%20effect,downwind%20of%20the%20urban%20areas https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2020/december/mather-lecture-mar....) but the point is the negative impact of human, preventing "good" soft rain, because those precipitation are more intense and rare, so it's causing erosion and the result is just like less precipitation for plants/trees