Reposted by Kenster
"Water use was commercially confidential."
No, that is not acceptable. If you are using a scarce, essential, valuable _public_ resource, you have to be transparent about it, and prepared to justify it
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply