from the Free Press today

"A confidential plan is being pushed to break the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department free from the City of Detroit and create a regional authority, which could pump as much as $50 million a year back into the cash-strapped city's budget, the Free Press has learned.

A 15-page summary of the plan, titled "Proposal to Control Our Own Destiny," calls for the city to own the system but for an authority to operate it independently of city bureaucracy".