The Great Stink on the Thames in 1858 led to the sanitary revolution & modern sewers.
With the current Great Stink on the Thames & other water bodies, renationalisation is the only answer.
Profit-oriented private utilities won't be accountable & safeguard water as a public good

One-day workshop held on 18th March at IIT Bombay on 'Challenges for Non-networked Sanitation in India'. It was part of our Towards Brown Gold project. Thanks to all presenters, panellists and attendees for making it a big success Prof Lyla Mehta Ben O'Donovan-Iland shibaji bose Shilpi Srivastava

In this recent Institute of Development Studies opinion piece Towards Brown Gold researchers Prof Lyla Mehta Alan Nicol Deepa Joshi highlights three key issues for urgent consideration in currently popular framings of the sanitation circular economy (SCE).
ids.ac.uk/opinions/the-s…

'What we really need this World Water Day is the international multilateral system to take a stand against weaponising water.'

Prof Lyla Mehta Alan Nicol via The New Humanitarian

#WorldWaterDay 👇🚰

thenewhumanitarian.pulse.ly/ntzu46x8m2

Great Towards Brown Gold policy workshop at IIT Bombay on March 18 on 'Challenges for Non-Networked Sanitation in India.' Amazing contributions from sanitation & FSM experts, state officials as well as inspiring community members & sanitation workers from #Nanded & #Kerela .

Thanks to NC Narayanan (IITB), Seema (SOPPECOM) et al for organising. Fantastic to also have Dr Kifle Woldemariam from Mekelle University #Mekelle who gave a moving talk to students abt water resources & survival in #Tigray during war

From #Gaza to #Tigray & #Ukraine , water has been weaponised.
Given #WorldWaterDay 's focus on 'Water for Peace', Alan Nicol & I argue that the multilateral system needs to show moral compass & stop the wars & the weaponisation of water & food. The New Humanitarian Z.Frank Institute of Development Studies

Groundwater Symposium is the annual program of the CREEW, initiated in 2009. This year, it's the 12th edition. Towards Brown Gold , shibaji bose
Experts stress coherent institutional, policy framework for prudent groundwater use kathmandupost.com/national/2024/… via The Kathmandu Post

The Groundwater Symposium is the flagship program of CREEW initiated in 2009 and expanded from national to Regional level in this 12th Edition.
Towards Brown Gold
Experts call for ensuring sustainable management of vital groundwater resources in Nepal myrepublica.nagariknetwork.com/news/experts-c…

Happy to have co-authored this chapter in this Handbook

Gendered impacts on internal migrant workers in the informal economy in India
Megan Schmidt-Sane, Mihir Bhatt, Mehul Pandya, and Lyla Mehta AIDMI Megan Schmidt-Sane

On #InternationalWomensDay a fascinating and insightful piece by Towards Brown Gold researchers Alan Nicol and @Deepa_joshi on the urgent need for a more radical feminist water agenda Prof Lyla Mehta Shilpi Srivastava

Last day of ipbes third authors’ meeting of #TransformativeChange assessment. Thanks to all, esp. wonderful folks in Chapter 3, for the great discussions & productive work, working towards transformative change that is equitable, plural, diverse & just.

Happy to share this news about the UNC water and Health conference 2023. Ranked 1 in the poster presentation category. Thank you all for the support, especially Towards Brown Gold Prof Lyla Mehta IIT Bombay canalpy

Happy to share that our Towards Brown Gold research is getting noticed! Our researcher Hariprasad V M of IIT Bombay study on sanitation workers in #Alleppey awarded the first prize in waterinstitute.unc.edu/knowledge/top-…

The importance of wastewater & faecal sludge management in #refugee & conflict settings. From Clinics to Sludge. Great work by Diogo Trajano Silva⁩ ⁦James Ebdon⁩ w. Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) ⁦Towards Brown Gold⁩ ⁦MSF International⁩ msfsouthasia.org/from-clinics-t…

Coming up next is Marcus Taylor on 19th Feb Marcus Taylor who will be talking about Agrarian Change and Climate Instability in Rural India Institute of Development Studies meghasheth Vinitha Bachina

We need more women at every level to tackle the gender imbalance

We also need feminist ethics of care & justice in science.

feminist epistemology also calls for plural, situated & multiple perspectives.

Fly high women & girls (incl. my teen)

#WomenAndGirlsInScience

'While sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is not new, the idea of using sewage – an abundant and unavoidable waste – is a novelty.
Poop-powered planes: Could jet fuel made from sewage take off?'
This could be the ultimate Brown Gold? Towards Brown Gold cnn.com/travel/poop-po…

New book chapter with ClaudiaRingler & Shiney Varghese  bringing together water and food debates, synergies between SDGs 2 & 6 & pushing for joining up human rights to water, food and livelihoods

Grateful for the incredible learning experience during the week-long annual meeting with Towards Brown Gold team members from the UK, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nepal, and India. Meeting held at Chandragiri Hills & Kathmandu, Nepal from 20-24 November #GlobalCollaboration# IIT Bombay Institute of Development Studies