Maureen tells the story of a nightmarish battle for access to fresh water for Detroit's poor that lasted more than a decade, and how the recent intervention of Governor Gretchen Whitmer turned the tables. Along the way Maureen recounts the rise of car manufacturing in Detroit, the creation of this country's first black middle class, how automation and globalization destroyed all that, and what it is actually like to try to raise a family with kids in a house that has no water.