Sunil Sinha, associate professor in the Via Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, will be featured as an expert on water infrastructure on the History Channel's new special on America's infrastructure crisis --"The Crumbling of America. " It is scheduled to premiere on Monday June 22, 2009 at 8 p.m. with repeats at midnight and Sunday June 28 at 2 p.m. Please check your local listings for times or the link to the link below for more info:

http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=452430

Dr. Sinha is the co-director of the Institute of Critical Technology and Applied Science's Water Research Center of Excellence.

America's infrastructure is collapsing. Tens of thousands of bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. A third of the nation's highways are in poor or mediocre shape. Massively leaking water and sewage systems are creating health hazards and contaminating rivers and streams. Weakened and under-maintained levees and dams tower over communities and schools. And the power grid is increasingly maxed out, disrupting millions of lives and putting entire cities in the dark. The Crumbling of America explores these problems using expert interviews, on location shooting and computer generated animation to illustrate the kinds of infrastructure disasters that could be just around the bend.

~ Lynn Nystrom