Buried near the bottom:

At the same time, the law lets local governments enter into non-disclosure agreements with companies for up to a year, temporarily limiting public access to details about proposed projects.

Hiding water usage is apparently a standard tactic the proponents of these projects use so they can straight up lie about their drain on the environment. I also didn’t see anything in the article about any kind of pollution.

until the state sinks into the ocean I guess

this will greatly reduce cooling costs