For nearly a year, 70-year-old Simone Grier has had to start every morning using bottled water to brush her teeth and to wash her hands after a pipe burst in her home and left her without running water.
The pipe burst just weeks after she moved into her home this past February. She said that plumbers told her that repairs to pipes and the damage to her home would cost thousands of dollars, something she couldn’t afford on her own.
She was eventually put in touch with advocates who connected her with a DeKalb County program designed to fix pipes for low-income residents for free…