The top official in the German state where Elon Musk built his Tesla gigafactory – the only one in Europe – has backed the company’s controversial use of water resources in the region. “We are well advised to use water sparingly. But Tesla is the wrong person to criticize for this,” Brandenburg Premier Dietmar Woidke told dpa. “The company does not want to use any additional water in production and intends to fully recycle its industrial waste water in future,” Woidke, who is a member of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), said. Tesla opened its giant car plant in Grünheide…