Canadians deliver water to protest Detroit shutoffs

[Pulsar]

For basic necessities like water, I think that's pretty reasonable.

I hate to tell you this, but water isn't hard to find. It's just not. Walk into any pubic building and you'll find toilets, water fountains, etc. Shelters provide it, along with a number of other things.

Hell, you can walk into a fast food restaurant and buy a large water for $0.25.

The issue here isn't one of human rights. It's of people who just plain out won't pay their bills.

 

[boomerang]

Are you guys really taking the piss just because your pride is injured because some "foreigners" are helping out?

I'm sure not. I welcome any and all aid other nations are willing to bestow on us.

 

[MongGrel]

Excellent news! The humble beginnings of foreign aid to the United States of America!

It was bound to happen eventually

 

[boomerang]

We'll take that sweet statue too

50 or 60 million poor folks for a statue - you bet! We recently refurbished lady liberty too so she's going to be good for a long time. Think of it as an offer you can't refuse.

Oh, and the wording had to be changed a little bit.

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning for free stuff;

 

[cabri]

There as an article on this that the percentage of cell phone bills and lottery tickets purchases were higher than the past due water bills.

Just shows the priority that people place on their living responsibilities.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Bathroom water isn't safe to drink. It isn't potable water.

You are wrong.

The water that comes out of your bathroom sink is the exact same water that comes out of your kitchen sink. In fact, the water that goes into the toilet is the exact same water as well.

Stroke victim survives for 7 days on water from the toilet:

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/heal...ays+drinking+toilet+water/10064773/story.html

 

[Sulaco]

At a restaurant sure, but not many fast food places.

More nonsense. Utterly untrue and transparently so.

I defy you to show or even mention one fast food restaurant chain that provides walk-in service that doesn't provide ice water free of charge.

 

[Orignal Earl]

You are wrong.

The water that comes out of your bathroom sink is the exact same water that comes out of your kitchen sink. In fact, the water that goes into the toilet is the exact same water as well.

My first thought was that he has soft water in the bathroom, a guy doesn't want to drink that but it's great for washing

 

[Victorian Gray]

My first thought was that he has soft water in the bathroom, a guy doesn't want to drink that but it's great for washing

I'm just amazed at how upset a few folks get when neighbours act like neighbours and help a few folks out.

 

[Sattern]

They should have prepared and transported a lot more water than that to make it worth the time and effort they put into planning this.

 

[CPA]

nobody should have to pay for drinking water.

And so how do you propose we build the infrastructure and fund its maintenance? Everyone could build wells but there's still a cost to that.

 

[boomerang]

And so how do you propose we build the infrastructure and fund its maintenance? Everyone could build wells but there's still a cost to that.

If everyone had a well, the government would institute a well tax.

 

[Orignal Earl]

I'm just amazed at how upset a few folks get when neighbours act like neighbours and help a few folks out.

You know that crazy old loner bitter guy that lives in every town?
He wasn't always old, but he's always been bitter and alone

 

[Victorian Gray]

You know that crazy old loner bitter guy that lives in every town?
He wasn't always old, but he's always been bitter and alone

Yeah, seems like. <shrug>

 

[Victorian Gray]

They should have prepared and transported a lot more water than that to make it worth the time and effort they put into planning this.

So, if you can't do everything, do nothing. Words to live by indeed.

 

[CZroe]

The "human right" status refers to blocking people from access to needs like water. If I don't sell you something you can get somewhere else, I am not depriving you of it. If I dam and divert a river to make a village suffer then I violated their human right. If I insist that they pay for that bottled water before leaving the store, I did not violate their rights. If I offer to purify, test, deliver, and pressurize their home with water for a fee and I stop when they don't pay that fee then I am not violating anything. They can still go to any store, lake, or creek. Heck, they can even get it at a public water fountain. They weren't deprived of anything but my paid services.

 

[Fern]

Bathroom water isn't safe to drink. It isn't potable water.

Where the heck did you get that idea?

I've not seen a city where both potable and non-potable water lines were run.

Fern

 

[Fern]

Are you guys really taking the piss just because your pride is injured because some "foreigners" are helping out?

I don't think anybody cares if Canadians want to bring down water.

We're tired of the bullshit from Detroit. Detroiters brought this on themselves. They elected the boobs who ran their city into the ground with unimaginable levels of fraud, corruption and waste.

Most just don't want to pay and instead whine for for freebies. I'm reading 60% of those receiving cutoff notices pay up. http://www.vox.com/2014/7/8/5878713/why-detroit-is-cutting-off-tap-water-to-thousands-of-people

Detroit also has a number of programs for the poor etc.

This is mostly just BS.

Fern

 

[CZroe]

Where the heck did you get that idea?

I've not seen a city where both potable and non-potable water lines were run.

Fern

Yard and fire sprinklers in San Diego are typically run from non-potable lines, but I can't imagine that any bathrooms would ever be connected to non-potable water lines.

 

[irishScott]

I don't think anybody cares if Canadians want to bring down water.

We're tired of the bullshit from Detroit. Detroiters brought this on themselves. They elected the boobs who ran their city into the ground with unimaginable levels of fraud, corruption and waste.

Most just don't want to pay and instead whine for for freebies. I'm reading 60% of those receiving cutoff notices pay up. http://www.vox.com/2014/7/8/5878713/why-detroit-is-cutting-off-tap-water-to-thousands-of-people

Detroit also has a number of programs for the poor etc.

This is mostly just BS.

Fern

This. If some Canadian charity wants to give us free shit, they're more than welcome to do so. Free stuff is free. But I'm pretty sure if they gave out an equal amount of free Canadian Whiskey alongside the water, the whiskey would be gone first.

Let me know when significant numbers of people die of thirst in Detroit. For being a "humanitarian crisis" that doesn't seem to be happening.

 

[pcgeek11]

In most Municipalities have laws stating it is illegal to collect rainwater because the Municipalities say that they own all water.

You will go to jail

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/man-sentenced-30-days-catching-rain-water-own-property-enters-jail

They give away free water in jail, right?

 

[silicon]

So we can all just run water from the nearest creek? Because if people are paying money for water then there is no money for pipes, water treatment, people to maintain the infrastructure, etc. water does not magically appear in someone's house after they install a faucet.

of course they get water from the nearest creek...just like in africa.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Why are you lying, dude? There most certainly is water on a Soda machine...just like there is a Soda water button on the machine.

To be fair, that little water tab under the Lipton spigot can be hard to see. The embarrassment of having to ask an employee where the water is located...

 

[bryanl]

More proof that Canada is much better than Hamas.

 

[Jaskalas]

Look out Canada, moment the world learns you've got "free stuff", they're invading.