Detroit collapses into third-world ruin as nearly HALF the residents can no longer afford to pay for running water
by: Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews.com
Friday, June 27, 2014
America’s once-thriving auto capital has become a third-world catastrophe, with nearly half of its residents now unable to pay their water bills. Reports indicate that roughly 50 percent of Detroit residents are struggling just to keep the water flowing, and some are now suggesting swift United Nations intervention to provide this basic necessity for those in need.
CBS Detroit reports that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department is routinely having to shut off water mains at homes where residents can’t or won’t pay their water bills. For some, it is simply laziness that leads to their water being shut off, as the city says a good number of folks quickly pay their bills once the tap has been shuttered. But for others, perpetual financial distress in one of the nation’s most distraught cities is the driving factor.
“At the DWAS Department — it’s not our goal to shut off water,” stated Curtrise Garner, a department spokeswoman. “We want people’s water on, just like they do; but you do have to pay for your water… That’s the bottom line.”
Concerned about the well-being of Detroit’s roughly 700,000-and-dwindling residents, local activists have begun demanding that the water department just keep the water on, claiming that it is a “human right.” These same folks are even calling for UN intervention, as if there is no domestic solution to the increasing levels of poverty that restrict access to something as fundamental as water.
The UN is also actively intervening on its own behalf, declaring the Detroit water cutoffs to be a violation of human rights. In a recent press release, UN officials proclaimed that the disconnection of water services is a “violation of the human right to water and other international human rights,” suggesting that it must get involved in the situation.
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