Everyone knows the water department is one of the few remaining aces in the City of Detroit's hand. What's it worth if it went to auction? Ten billion? Twenty?

Why is there so much interest in regionalizing the water and sewage department but so little interest in regionalizing the City of Detroit's social services departments, impoverished and schools?

How about selling the DSWD and using the proceeds to fund the CofD schools?

The CoD could then buy water from whoever buys it, raise still more revenue by tacking fees onto the rates like all other communities do and then join the choir bitching about how high the rates are.