“We need to keep the water running because we’re women. We need to take baths. I try to pay the sewer bill and the water bill together and then what little I got left I try to put on my lights. I got to have lights.””
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Tammy Lucas of Birmingham, Alabama, quoted in BBC News - The scandal of the Alabama poor cut off from water
This story is the kind that should never need to be written in the USA. Unfortunately, it does need to be written. (via bohemiansouth)