FLINT, MI (AP)-- Emails released by a liberal group critical of Governor Rick Snyder show the state was sending bottled water a year ago to state employees in Flint.
The water came at a time when Flint announced it had flunked some drinking water standards apart from the lead contamination that has spoiled tap water and caused a crisis.
The state told employees at a state building in Flint that they could use a water cooler or the drinking fountain.
Lonnie Scott of Progress Michigan says Snyder's administration was taking care of employees while Flint residents were being told to not worry about tap water.
Melanie Brown, a spokeswoman at the Department of Environmental Quality, couldn't immediately say for how long the state provided water.
