Thursday, August 14, 2014

Detroit Water Problem

Article: Apparently in the city of Detroit, there is a tradition not to pay your water bill. If you can't afford to pay all your bills that month, the water bill is the one to skip because they probably won't notice you haven't paid your bill for almost a year. But lately, the water department has gotten upset that thousands of people stopped paying their water bill and owe the them cumulatively millions of dollars. And so the water department finally began turning off people's water. People in Detroit are furious that they have no water and the UN has even castigated Detroit for depriving people of this basic human right. In response, Detroit has worked out a new payment plan that keeps people's water on and helps them pay their bills. Kids: who is in the wrong here? Make arguments pretending you are either the city or people who's water has been turned off.

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