A Man Lives in There for Three Weeks and It Has No Tap

A man lived in a house with no running water for three weeks. The tap had been dead since the day he moved in, so every drop came from somewhere else. A five-gallon bucket hauled from a gas station on Route 9. Sponge baths in a plastic tub. Two-liter bottles stacked along the kitchen wall. A broken pipe joint behind the drywall that no one fixed. In 2014, a Detroit man died of dehydration in a home with no working plumbing after the water was shut off for unpaid bills. Here are the three ways a house with no tap actually gets lived in.