Flint water help could spill into rural Alaska

The Senate is likely to pass a Water Resources bill this week that would send $100 million to Flint, Michigan, to resolve that community’s drinking water crisis.
But the bill could be a plum for rural Alaska, too.
U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan said the bill includes a new grant program he championed to help small and disadvantaged communities build water projects.
Towns without household drinking water or wastewater services would be at the head of the line.
Sullivan said those communities are pr