Public-sector innovation is hard, even for big, high-capacity cities. Innovation is even tougher when the subject is something essential to the health and safety of a city, like water infrastructure.

Communities across the country are looking for ways to leapfrog to smarter, more sustainable solutions and reach better outcomes for their residents.

The US is in desperate need of new infrastructure investment. Cities across the country are dealing with aging and failing systems, and there is a huge opportunity to leapfrog to new technologies — with more distributed, resilient, and green infrastructure projects. Making this leap successfully depends on thousands of small and medium-sized communities like Flint, MI and [...]