Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder?s office released new emails over the weekend related to his administration?s handling of Flint?s contaminated water system. The emails revealed that some of Snyder?s top advisors advocated switching Flint’s drinking water away from the highly corrosive Flint River more than a year before the crisis became serious.

The Value of Water Coalition has released the results of a new national poll on public attitudes and concerns about water.

On March 6, CNN is hosting a Democratic presidential debate featuring Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in Flint, Mich. A massive crisis over toxic drinking water in the city has made Flint the subject of national headlines for months.

Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, Inc. (LAN), of Houston, has earned a National Recognition Award for exemplary engineering achievement in the American Council of Engineering Companies? (ACEC) 49th annual Engineering Excellence Awards.

The American Water Works Association (AWWA) Board of Directors has announced that Aurel Arndt of Allentown, Pa., was elected as the association?s treasurer at its winter board meeting.

The Detroit Free Press reported Sunday that at least a dozen lawsuits have been filed in local, state and federal courts on behalf of Flint residents who drank lead-tainted water for nearly two years. The complaints name a long list of state and local agencies and officials, from Gov. Rick Snyder to Flint city employees.

Many countries are facing a perfect storm of financing constraints and water infrastructure shortfalls. Dramatic declines in oil and commodity prices, low water tariffs, groundwater overdrafts and untreated wastewater discharges are prompting governments to tap the private sector through public-private partnership. According to a new report from Bluefield Research, the market for water public-private partnership projects is set to nearly triple between 2016 and 2020.

Hydromax USA recently announced a partnership with Utilis LTD to exclusively provide water utilities the ability to analyze satellite imagery to detect water leaks within their network infrastructure.

California?s water and sewer utilities will see weaker financial margins in FY2015-2016 as the state?s mandated conservation targets hit water sales, according to a Fitch Ratings report.

Carollo Engineers has chosen Bentley System?s EADOC cloud-based construction management software as its corporate standard for capital project management.