In an area that is both agricultural and residential in nature, nursery owners involved in the growing of decorative garden trees and plants complained to authorities of an average decline of approximately 25% in profits caused by a lack of water which resulted in irrigation problems, and the consequent loss of merchandise. To provide assistance to the nursery owners, the authorities plan to induce water rations upon residents in the area since if less water is used by the residents, more will be available to the nursery owners.

Which of the following points to the most serious logical flaw in the plan devised by the authorities?

A) Since the rationing of water by residents will result in lower payments for water by residents to the authorities, the plan will most likely be detrimental to the revenue earned by the local government for such services.
B) By punishing the residents for financial difficulties experienced by agricultural business owners, the authorities risk harming the way they are perceived by the residential population, affecting future endeavours.
C) It is not probable that 100% of the 25% decline in the profits earned by the nursery owners was a direct result of the irrigation problems and the damage caused to the merchandise by them
D) Because most of the residents in the area are not homeowners, but instead rent their apartments, the water rations, creating the need to save water, will give rise to the infrequent cleaning of apartments and buildings, lowering the market value of the area's residential properties.
E) The introduction of water rationing to the area will improve the status of the nurseries' goods at the expense of the revenues they earn since, due to the need for irrigation entailed in the care of such products, residents will cease to purchase garden plants.