'The response to a water crisis can't be turning the city water supply into a for-profit industry,' said JoshuaPotash.
, and a failure to provide the state or the federal government with a plan to fix the water system," the outlet added.that left Jackson residents without safe water for a month, the governor said that the city needs to do a better job"collecting their water bill payments before they start going and asking everyone else to pony up more money."
However, Legum pointed out, Jackson's struggles to collect fees for water and to raise enough revenue to pay for routine maintenance can be attributed to Siemens, a multibillion-dollar corporation of the kind that Reeves has baselessly suggested could alleviate the city's water crisis.In 2010, Siemens began pitching Jackson officials to hire the company to install all-new automated water meters and a new billing system.
"In the end," Legum wrote,"Jackson was stuck with a $7 million annual bond payment [through 2041], a $2 million monthly shortfall in water fees, and a system of water meters that was not working.""I think there is an overwhelming desire for the leadership, those who represent Jackson and those who do not, to take action," said the governor.
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