[V K Lee]

These ‘folks’ are criminal. They steal from the water dept. and expect others to pay. Geesh! Wait till the power is cut: no frig for beers, no microwave for popcorn and no power for TeeVee. What will the do then? Take to the streets and begin the same games Chicago plays?

[Robert357]

OK, don't shut off the water for lack of payment. File a lien and foreclose on the home for failure to pay the water bill and if they are renting, file a lien on the owner asking him/her to evict.

If water is a human right that doesn't need to be paid for, then housing where taxes aren't paid for get’s confiscated by government.

Either way you slice it, someone will need to pay the operating and bond repayment costs of the water/wastewater system. The systems officers (or elected officials) have bond covenants that they have to live up to and probably there are also ratemaking regulatory requirements against having other classes of customers pay the bills of those that can't afford to pay.

I don't see a simple solution.

[AppyPappy]

It was OK to cut off the water when the Democrat-controlled GOVERNMENT did it.

[jmcenanly]

The Detroit River is large enough to allow ocean going vessels to pass through. I don’t know how potable it is, but it costs money to bring it up to first world standards. The author either does not know or does not care about this.

[Netz]

“RIGHTS”, “RIGHTS”, “RIGHTS”. It is my God given RIGHT to use utilities and NOT Pay for them! At some point, Detroit will either sink into the muck or juts stand as an edifice (for future archaeologists) to a once productive power house gone broke due to every vice known to Man.
I grew up there but when you don't feel safe going to a sports event, it's all over for any city.

[ColdOne]

plantation prisons. couldn't read any farther than that comment. shaking head jpg

[ColdOne]

I wonder if these people in Detroit know that all those illegals crossing the border get all the water they want?