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When regularly there's a significant probability that a person's periodic income will be less than their periodic expenses, budgeting becomes an exercise of choosing which bills not to pay.

The important reason the damaged equipment due to illegal restoration of service is problematic is same reason that public water service is important. Public water service exists to protect public health. It keeps people from dying of diseases like cholera.

Punitive policies in regard to water service put people in life threatening situations. It's poor public policy.