The first Liquid Dynamics symposium at IDS, Brighton, UK.

Symposium report: Liquid Dynamics: Accessing Water and Sanitation in an Uncertain Age – Symposium Report (pdf 485kb)

Related research & events

• Lyla Mehta interview: “Shit happens”, British Medical Journal podcast, 17 September 2010.
• Lyla Mehta is quoted in the British Medical Journal article Toiling for toilets, 15 September 2010.
• Eldis blog: Water and sanitation for all: the need to go beyond numbers and beyond the MDGs by Lyla Mehta and Jeremy Allouche, 17 September 2010.
• The STEPS water team held an event at World Water Week 2010 in Stockholm: Liquid Dynamics II.
  Liquid Dynamics II: Linking quality and access for pro-poor Sustainability
  World Water Week 2010 homepage
  Blogs from World Water Week 2010
  
• STEPS water and sanitation research featured in an article entitled Water Flows, in the Spring 2010 edition of Society Now
• Case study: The social life of water, The Guardian, November 2009. Part of the ESRC feature “Climate change and you”.
• The STEPS water team held an event at World Water Week in Stockholm in August 2009, using case studies from our peri-urban work in Delhi and Community-Led Total Sanitation.
  Blog from World Water Week in Stockholm
  Podcast of STEPS session at World Water Week
  Presentations from Stockholm
  Photos from World Water Week
  STEPS at World Water Week 2009, Stockholm

• Blog from World Water Forum in Istanbul
  
• The Hay Festival Greenprint Forum, In collaboration with UNESCO – Earth, Wind, Fire and Water. STEPS Centre water and sanitation convenor speaks on the water panel. 21 May 2009
• Going to Scale with Community-Led Total Sanitation: Reflections on Experience, Issues and Ways Forward by Robert Chambers, Price £ 12.95
• Community-Led Total Sanitation As the International Year of Sanitation, 2008, drew to a close, the CLTS conference highlighted this innovative way of mobilising communities to completely eliminate open defecation. Dec 16-18 2008
• Photos from the CLTS conference
• Liquid Dynamics: challenges for water and sanitation Comment from our researchers and partners to mark UN Sanitation and Hygiene Week 2008.
• Sanitation Scandal – the priorities for World Water Week 2008
• Water: the ethics of efficiency Lyla Mehta writes about whether our food is too thirsty for Food Ethics magazine (pdf 2MB)
• World Toilet Day 2007 – examples of the Community-Led Total Sanitation approach
• World Water Day podcast (5.21 mins, 3MB)
  The STEPS Centre marked World Water Day 2007 with a special podcast in which STEPS member Lyla Mehta and IDS Research Associate Robert Chambers talk about what they believe are the most pressing issues for water and sanitation.
• Top five priorities for World Water Day 2007
  Coping with water scarcity – Lyla Mehta
  Spend less to achieve more – Robert Chambers
  Rain-fed areas and rice farming – John Thompson
  Sanitation, suffering and safety: women and water – Petra Bongartz
• Irrigation, contamination & food safety for the urban and peri-urban poor. Research by STEPS member Fiona Marshall
• The politics and poetics of water scarcity – research by STEPS member Lyla Mehta
• Reframing Resilience The STEPS Centre’s theme for 2008 was resilience; engaging with resilience thinking and exploring practical implications for policy in agriculture, water, peri-urban dynamics, epidemics and regulation.