A US billionaire has infuriated his neighbours by shipping in an estimated 30 tankers a day of water to renovate his £80million estate and fill the nine million-gallon lake at the stately home while some locals suffer a hosepipe ban.
Stephen Schwarzman, 78, dubbed the most powerful man on Wall Street, has been shipping the supplies into his 2,500-acre estate Conholt Park in Wiltshire.
Locals in neighbouring Hampshire, where a drought order is also in place in some parts, have filmed the American financier's tankers being filled up from standpipes day and night.
This measure is brought in when a water shortage continues after a hosepipe ban and water firms must apply to the government for it.
Southern Water, which supplies more than two million customers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, put both measures in towards the end of July.
