{"id":401,"date":"2014-10-22T11:26:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=401"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:26:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:26:41","slug":"un-officials-shocked-by-detroits-mass-water-shutoffs-al-jazeera-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"UN officials &#8216;shocked&#8217; by Detroit\u2019s mass water shutoffs | Al Jazeera America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/10\/20\/detroit-water-un.html\">UN officials &#8216;shocked&#8217; by Detroit\u2019s mass water shutoffs | Al Jazeera America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 0px 0px 20px 0px;\">Surrounded by a frenzy of cameras, Detroit resident Rochelle McCaskill explained her predicament to a team of United Nations officials on Sunday: The numbers simply didn\u2019t add up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">Out of her $672 monthly disability check, McCaskill spends $600 rent, she said, leaving her unable to pay the city\u2019s water bills, which have skyrocketed to more than twice the national average.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">\u201cThey need a category for those of us who cannot pay,\u201d said McCaskill, whose water was shut off this summer as part of a wave of disconnections that, block by block, have left thousands of city residents without running water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">The city turned off McCaskill\u2019s water despite the fact that she had been paying down her $540.10 water bill in increments and that she suffers from MRSA, a contagious infection that the\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #2677b9; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.niaid.nih.gov\/topics\/antimicrobialresistance\/examples\/mrsa\/pages\/default.aspx\">NIH considers\u00a0<\/a>a \u201cserious public health concern\u201d and requires frequent bathing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; line-height: 26px; color: #000000; margin: 20px 0px 20px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN officials &#8216;shocked&#8217; by Detroit\u2019s mass water shutoffs | Al Jazeera America. Surrounded by a frenzy of cameras, Detroit resident Rochelle McCaskill explained her predicament to a team of United Nations officials on Sunday: The numbers simply didn\u2019t add up. Out of her $672 monthly disability check, McCaskill spends $600 rent, she said, leaving her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[207,395,822,826,866],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-detroit","tag-health","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}