DeKalb is in Hot Water

DeKalb County leaders plan to raise water rates by 10 percent a year, every year, for the next 10 years.

This image of Andre Dickens on a TV liveshot with a 20-foot gusher from a blown water main behind him yesterday is the future that new DeKalb CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson is trying to avoid, and she’s willing to burn political capital today to avoid it.

DeKalb County held an emergency meeting of the Public Works & Infrastructure Committee — essentially, …