Detroit’s Water War: a tap shut-off that could impact 300,000 people
The Detroit Water Department’s needs to recoup millions of dollars to support the water utility, so they are going after the easiest targets – families. Meanwhile, Detroit’s high-end golf club, the Red Wing’s hockey arena, the Ford football stadium, and more than half of the city’s commercial and industrial users are also behind in their bills, owing a sum totalling $30 million. But no contractors have showed up on their doorstep to shut off their water. Guardian journalist Michael Lukacs tells a gut wrenching story about how people’s lives are affected when the water is shut down.
Read carefully. This may be coming to a city near you.
