Well, just because there are jobs available doesn’t ensure that people like her are going to work! You have to actually work to get a paycheck but you can collect all those freebies while sitting home on your butt! Which option do you honestly believe she would take?!
I absolutely believe in taking care of those who truly are incapable of taking care of themselves. But people like her who put things like manicures, tattoos, hair straightening and highlights, and clearly a lot of food, before her responsibility to caring for her kids and paying her bills get no sympathy from me whatsoever. Welfare and food stamp programs should only be a means of helping people with a hand up, but it has turned into an expected lifelong hand out to these folks who feel they are entitled to free everything.
The water situation? A solution might be that a minimal amount of water, just enough to survive, is free. Anyone who didn't pay would be cut back to that minimum. Instead, the tendency is to charge a pricey base amount even to those who don't use much water.