>Nearly 70,000 residential accounts are going to have their water cut off through the end of September. No they won't. Detroit faced an endemic issue where peo

>Nearly 70,000 residential accounts are going to have their water cut off through the end of September. No they won't. Detroit faced an endemic issue where people simply felt that they didn't have to pay their water bills because there was no consequence. Now that they've instituted this plan, lots of people have found the ability to pay their bill, or to make arrangements to pay it eventually, or to credibly make a case for why they can't. Pretty much every city charges for water, and pretty much every city cuts you off if you don't pay your bill.