Detroit sits on lakes representing 20% of the world’s fresh water – yet a staggering 100,000 households have had their water shut off. At an average 2.3 people per household, that’s nearly 250,000 people out of a population of just under 700,000 – in the city with the highest urban black population in the country. This is a deliberate and brutal strategy to accelerate the gentrification of inner city Detroit by forcing people out of their homes, and the attacks are clearly part of a global trend by banks and multi-bilionaires to buy up water all over the world. But the people of Detroit, as always, are fighting back through collective action.