Eli5 Why can’t we just create rain clouds for the western half of the U.S. that is going through a drought?

Question

I’ve heard of the term cloud seeding. Why can’t we create rain clouds and position them in the parts of the US that are going through droughts? It’s not like the water is disappearing from earth, it’s just displacing in other parts of the world

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> It’s not like the water is disappearing from earth, **it’s just displacing in other parts of the world**

Well, there is one part of the problem (aside from the fact that cloud seeing still requires the right conditions to work).