...over an unpaid $2.3m bill.
In Panama, in 1985, I was drafted to be an officer in a dying club in Gamboa, in the former Canal Zone. It was claimed that the club owed 10’s of thousands of dollars in unpaid water bills. A little investigating showed that the water company had not fixed a leak, and that was where all the water had been going.
As I recall, we ended up paying nothing.