Southern Water has warned tanker companies to stop delivering its water to the Wiltshire estate of an American billionaire.

Some of it was recently used, entirely legally, to help fill a lake, despite a hosepipe ban being in place locally for domestic users.

Multiple water tankers have been filmed both day and night by local residents filling up from standpipes in part of neighbouring Hampshire where a drought order is in place.

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      The only rules that apply to rulers are those of ballistics, immolation, and ordnance.

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        It’s unhelpful to say stuff like this because he doesn’t pay more. More likely he pays less per volume than residents who are limited in how much water they can use.

        Billionaires write the rules, then get to say “Well we did everything legally!”

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    Stephen Schwarzman – who is one of the world’s richest men and a financial backer of US President Donald Trump.

    Billionaires should not exist.