Dubai plant will be the second-largest in the world using seawater reverse osmosis and the largest powered by solar energy.

The engineering firm said officials largely ignored its recommendations while working for the city after the lead-in-water crisis had already begun.

Engineering firm inked confidential settlements with four child plaintiffs ahead of a February retrial in the case over the 2014-2015 Flint, Mich., lead-in-water crisis.

Jurors said they were unable to reach a unanimous verdict after months of trial and weeks of deliberations.

Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc. are accused of professional negligence in a lawsuit filed by families of four Flint, Mich., children.

The ethics and standard-of-care witness in the negligence trial of two engineering firms connected to the 2015 Flint, Mich., water crisis said in three days of testimony that both firms failed to act to stop or limit the public danger despite having the knowledge and obligation to alert higher government authorities.

A potentially damaging witness seeks to avoid testifying against his company's own client.