A billionaire considered to be one of the most powerful people on Wall Street has infuriated neighbors by transporting 30 tankers of water a day to his $80 million estate in the U.K.
Stephen Schwarzman, 78, has been shipping vast quantities of water to his 2,500-acre estate in Wiltshire, in order to fill a nine-million-gallon lake located on the premises.
However, his selfish actions, which occur while parts of the U.K. are facing restrictions on water due to a drought, have infuriated both locals and water bosses, who are aghast at the billionaire’s wastefulness.
After spending months tracking the seemingly never-ending water shipments, resident Lawrence Lask organized a network of neighbors who took it in turns to follow the water tankers and film their movements, which ended up leadi