Dekalb Water Watch

Welcome to our resident-led coalition for access-first water policies! 

We are a collection of community members who are transforming thousands of dollars of unpayable water bills and an irreversibly broken system into a campaign for a radically different future.

If you are dealing with an outrageously high water bill, you are not alone.  If you have had a lien levied against your home or business for water debt, you are not alone.  If your bill vascillates despite your usage remaining consistent, you are not alone. If no reasonable explanation exists for your skyrocketing charges, you are not alone. If you are sick of being given the run-around after being forced to repeat the same story about how any of this happened in the first place, only to be asked to tell it again, we are on this carnival ride together, and we get to say when it ends.

Witnessing our most vulnerable neighbors suffer for months, some even years on end disconnected from water, being hassled for payments during the holidays, saving receipts for water they were forced to buy for reimbursements that would never come, has left us with emotional scars.

Our lives are sacred. The water is Ours. If we must insist upon it for politicians to recognize it, then so we must. But we will no longer allow for this humiliation of our working class brethren to continue. 

All of you who have shared your stories with us, know that it has not been in vain. We listened, we identified common threads, and we got to work.

The past few years have been spent laying the groundwork for foundational water rights in Dekalb County. The policies are in place as is the research to support it. 

We just need everybody to push. All together now!