Detroit and Baltimore have hiked water rates by over 42% in the past three years. This year nearly a 100,000 residents have been threatened with water termination. International donors have stepped up the plate to supply poor Americans with bottles of water.
"They are proceeding despite a scolding from the United Nations, which called Detroit’s mass shut-off last year “a violation of the most basic human rights,” and an outcry from local advocates, who say bills are going unpaid only because residents don’t have the cash."
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