Metro Detroit needs sustainable, just and affordable water rates By Tom Stephens The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD, as well as its still-aborning regional successor the Great Lakes Water Authority) is at it again. It has just been revealed that they are secretly planning to resume mass water shut offs against the poor. People […]
Water Justice News: Detroit
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July 10, 2014 – 11:52am The Council of Canadians condemns the unwarranted arrests this morning of Detroit residents who blocked the entrance to Homrich Wrecking Inc., the company contracted to shut-off residential water service. Council of Canadians ch… |
(Download the Detroit FAQ PDF – 1.2MB) The Blue Planet Project works in collaboration with communities and groups around the world to protect the water commons and promote water as a human right. In May, activists in Detroit approached Blue Planet Project founder Maude Barlow about families who were having their water shut off because […] |