On 4/17/2020 6:12 PM, Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 15:00:47 -0700 (PDT), "
> > wrote:
>
>> On Friday, April 17, 2020 at 3:58:40 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>
>>> Not really. There are ways to get help. If the water gets shut off you
>>> can be sure they are true deadbeats with no intention of ever paying.
>>> It is not because they are 10 days late, it is because they are years
>>> late and living in squalor.
>>>
>> I knew of a family and from a friend their water had been cut off for a few
>> years. It seems they owed well over $600 in arrears and never attempted to
>> do a payment plan. They just got their water daily from a service/station
>> market they lived next door to.
>
> How did they shower and flush the toilet?
>
Probably ran a hose to the neighbor's house. Some towns have a fixed
cost and no meters so it would not be detected.

The numbers still seem very high. In Detroit there are many empty
houses that have water shut off and no one living there. That city
would be high counting them. I'm not inclined to go searching for the
methodology though. I have water here.