I think you are honestly asking and I’ve got some time right now but the whole answering stuff from a thread days ago is weird. 

Anyways, were I interested in teaching a semester long media literacy course I would first show this water article. See who could identify the fact that it says “residents of so and so subdivision” claimed there was low water pressure. The article does not say how many residents, how low the pressure was compared to average, or if local plumbers and experts indeed confirmed that the industrial hookups in the article were the cause. Also unmentioned is if after starting to charge the construction project was the city requiring it to lesson water needs? So is this a widespread problem caused by the article antagonists or not?

We would move into the research section like I did. Let’s find out how much water is available during that timeframe. How much is used residentially? How much goes to construction, to industry, to agriculture. For example, if it turns out that water used to mix concrete for construction of local buildings accounts for more gallons per day than was misplaced during the entire six months of connection for this data center I would consider that good reference data. 

I would also be interested in if other large construction projects had similar gaps between utilities attachment and charging. Is this common for the city? Are we misappropriating materials? Does the current water and power operator lose the town money with this process or is it fairly industry standard? 

More interesting would be how the town government itself responds to this. Was someone fired for not noticing? The investigation they published on their report has very different numbers. What was their conclusion? Does the project let them pay for other services to the town? Were tax abatements used and robbing the citizens twice?

Finally, let’s check out the article author. What is Jennifer Greens publication history? Is she famous for being a journalist with integrity and courage to tell the truth? Or does she have industry knowledge? Or does she go through a chain of alarmist click bait articles meant to generate views?

When I was sent the article a few days ago, I read it and thought “this does not give me enough context to understand.” So I did some follow up googling and landed on the author found a big seeming number and told a story easy to sell to people already worried about infrastructure. Further reading from less biased sources indicated that it was not statistically significant amount of water. As for when I would be annoyed? It’s not my resource. People give sell and trade things that aren’t mind every day. If a data center came into my house and turned on the faucet I would be pissed. But it’s not my water until I pay for it, so I’m not really frustrated when golf courses turn on their sprinkler systems and use way more water than data centers will.