Detroit did this to itself(themselves?).
No sympathy whatsoever. The citizens have continually voted in big, nanny government to take care of them. Now the big nanny government is past being broke and now is stuck.
Detroit, you screwed it up, you figure it out.
Of the 4,531 customers whose service was cut off:
60 percent had it restored within 24 hours.
76 percent got their water back within 48 hours.
This suggests that most customers can pay—they simply haven’t.