Detroit Water and Sewerage

(Newser) - Water shutoffs that sparked protests in Detroit have started again following a month's respite, the AP reports. Some 420 city customers were due to lose their water supply yesterday in a city where almost 45% of 173,000 residential water accounts are past due. Following appeals to the UN,...

(Newser) - At least eight people were arrested yesterday in Detroit for protesting water shutoffs in a city where almost 40% of residents live below the poverty line . Dozens picketed in front of a facility affiliated with the city's Water and Sewerage Department to try to stop what activists call a...