Agreed. That is also my understanding as well.

In Brazil, transpiration from the Amazon rainforest produces more water vapour than the amount of water transported by the Amazon river. This is known as an atmospheric river (e.g. [1]) and is now seen as critical to the Brazilian climate. I think the theory is that wide spread burning in Australia destroyed the atmospheric river there, which led to a much drier continent than existed before humans arrived.

[1]: https://www.noaa.gov/stories/what-are-atmospheric-rivers