Free utilities for residents of the City of Detroit?

[FrodosPet]

13. No, I do not want people to be sick from cholera, dysentery, or anything else

Some people in Detroit cannot afford to pay their water bills. That sucks, and something needs to be done about it. But what?

The cost of delivering water and sewer services is quite expensive. DWS serves a large part of the Metro area, and treating and pumping all that water is expensive. It is municipally owned by the CIty of Detroit, so there is no profit motive, but they still have to pay the Detroit Lighting Department (another municipally owned utility), their workers, the people who make supply and drain pipes, the people who make the mechanical filters and treatment chemicals, the vehicles and heavy equipment.

So, if free water for the citizens of Detroit is a human right, a few questions:

1. Is free water a right for suburbanites as well?
2. Who pays for the free water?
3. How do you minimize waste if there is no economic disincentive?

I am interested in some PRACTICAL ideas of things I can and should support (as opposed to mere insults).

From the socialist perspective - We know SOMETHING must be done, but WHAT should be done?