By by Dianne Feeley Detroit’s humanitarian crisis, indefinitely prolonged by fiscal austerity imposed by the state and its “emergency manager,” has taken another terrible turn this year, as the Detroit Water and Sewage Department (DWSD) has begun turning off the water to “delinquent accounts.” Half of all accounts in the city are considered “delinquent” and, since March, the department has been shutting the water off to about 3,000 accounts per week.
Some of these delinquent accounts, though, have been…

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