Posted July 11, 200816 yr I suppose it's a "city (town) issue... Black community denied water for decades, jury says COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Residents of a mostly black neighborhood in rural Ohio were awarded nearly $11 million Thursday by a federal jury that found local authorities denied them public water service for decades out of racial discrimination. Each of the 67 plaintiffs was awarded $15,000 to $300,000, depending on how long they had lived in the Coal Run neighborhood, about 5 miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County in east-central Ohio. For more info, please click the link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/11/civil.rights.water.ap/index.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 12, 200816 yr I wonder why some would get 15k but others 300k. I doubt that the water system has the money in such a rural place. Denying people water is WRONG.
July 12, 200816 yr Denying people water is WRONG. Unless they're from the Southwest region hehehe. The utility company itself might not have much money but they probably had insurance.
July 12, 200816 yr There are many rural areas that are "denied" water service. That's what happens when you locate in a rural community and a reliable water source (water piping) is not available. It's expensive and often not cost-effective to lay lines in rural areas because the amount of properties that would use the water service is insignificant -- compared to serving more people in an urbanized area (or rebuilding older lines). Not to say that this is the case here, but just throwing that out. There are still many parts of my home county that are on well water service, even though the more urbanized locales have municipal water service. Too few people living out in the "sticks."
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