You can now pay someone’s delinquent Detroit water bill online

[KamaAina]

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/23/you-can-now-pay-someones-delinquent-detroit-water-bill-online/

Last week, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department was poised to cut off water for those with delinquent accounts. Perhaps due to protests and even international pressure, the water company announced Monday that it's delaying the water turn-off until the end of July so residents in the hard-hit city can prove that they don't have enough money to pay their bill.

"Both of us wanted to help people," Bell said in an interview this week. "We were both willing to pay a bill for someone. But how were we supposed to do that?"

Bell, in Oakland, Calif., and Tillman, in Boston, started to build a platform to help Detroit residents pay their water bills.

They launched the Detroit Water Project just hours after their initial Twitter chat and before the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department's postponement was announced. The project initially sought out people who needed help. Soon, their Web site added a field for donors.

In your faces, Snyder and Orr!

[djean111]

1. This is wondrous indeed!

But, hopefully, something can be done about the purported very high rates that, evidently, poorer Detroiters cannot afford at all?

[abelenkpe]

2. K&R