Welcome to Darfur, Michigan

[Thumpalumpacus]

Water costs money. Sad but true.

[DramaQueen]

We got water cut off at least twice in the last 4 years so we built a well just in case. Can't they do that

[The Grand Nudger]

Actually no, it doesn't......do you think that favored manufacturers pay for the cost of their h20? Business would grind to a halt. Let's not be silly. Water only costs money for those who have none (money, that is...though I suppose water as well, on the basis of this ruling).

[Heywood]

Here's the problem with your analysis, Heywood - it's only going to take a handful waterborne illness cases requiring hospitalization to overshadow the cost of providing sanitary water to a whole lot of people. Water is cheap - hospital care isn't.

Water maybe cheap but it is not free. The money to pay for it has to come from somewhere. Where do you propose the money to run the water utility come from if the huge swaths of residence don't pay? Do you want to increase rates on the remaining payers?

Further there is evidence that many people who can pay only pay under threat of having their water disconnected.

During June and July, the peak months of the shutoffs, the department collected $1.7 million in money owed. In August, during the moratorium, collections were only $200,000. At the peak, the department disconnected around 900 homes a day, Latimer said.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-bankruptcy-judge...iness.html

[Jackalope]

We got water cut off at least twice in the last 4 years so we built a well just in case. Can't they do that

Dunno about Detroit, but every city I've lived in requires you to connect to city water if you're in their service area and forbids wells to those that are.

[DramaQueen]

Is this a weird monopoly thing

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And can't they budget

[ForumMember77]

We got water cut off at least twice in the last 4 years so we built a well just in case. Can't they do that

Dunno about Detroit, but every city I've lived in requires you to connect to city water if you're in their service area and forbids wells to those that are.

I can only imagine how you stumbled on this information.

Is there a sign on every other street asking residents not to build wells, because it's such a common annoyance ?

Perhaps your first thought was to build a well when you arrived and you looked up the law on such an act ?

[Jackalope]

Dunno about Detroit, but every city I've lived in requires you to connect to city water if you're in their service area and forbids wells to those that are.

I can only imagine how you stumbled on this information.

Is there a sign on every other street asking residents not to build wells, because it's such a common annoyance ?

Perhaps your first thought was to build a well when you arrived and you looked up the law on such an act ?

No I looked into it when I purchased property, and then just for grins I looked into the matter regarding other places I've lived.

It's not rocket science.

[Minimalist]

Water is cheap - hospital care isn't.

It's cheap the way republicunts do it. They're poor. They can just die.

[Zidneya]

Water costs money. Sad but true.

Just because it's true that doesn't make it right.


What the point of having a government that can't give their citizens their basic rights?