Futurewise is an extremist fringe group motivated by a desire to impose its ideology on others while raking in huge settlements from already strapped governments.  Personally, I would not trust anything coming out of this group. In this instance Hirst has little to do with water. The well in question  were always "exempt" because they used next to no water, less than .1%, of all of the water in the state. The real reason for Hirst is to control people and make it prohibitively expensive to build outside of the an urban area. This fits in to the elitist agenda of Futurewise, its supporters and the corrupt courts which ignored the law. Now that the legislature is trying to fix this we should do what we did in the first place: Ignore their nonsense.