FLINT: People must pay for water that is killing them and getting them sick.

http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2015/11/flint_sending_out_first_discon.html

FLINT, MI -- The city says it will send out the first water shutoff notices since a judge's ruling temporarily halted the practice in August.

Finance Director Jody Lundquist said about 1,800 shutoff notices for past-due accounts are expected to be mailed to customers this week.

The new notices only account for debts from water bills that have been issued since the city rolled back water and sewer rates to comply with an injunction issued by Genesee Circuit Court Judge Archie Hayman.

City officials have said the injunction, issued in a class action lawsuit brought by Flint water customers, has caused an increasing number of overdue accounts because the order forbid shutoffs based on rates that the judge ruled were improperly adopted.