“The water department announced in March it was resuming efforts to shut off water service to more than 150,000 delinquent customers in order to collect about $118 million in outstanding bills. The department said it would target customers whose bills are more than two months late and would shut off about 3,000 customers a week.”
Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20140617/NEWS01/306170107/City-Council-water-rate-hike
Source: This is no way to deal with a budget shortage
