Mark Harvey. Paper presented at CRESI Seminar, 20 October 2011, University of Essex

1. Reflections on Water: historical and contemporary Mark Harvey

2. Reconstructing water Who drinks it? When? A fundamental human right? Water for what? Historical differentiations and integrations in use and quality Water and waste: pipes, water closets and sewers Whose Water? Public good or commercial commodity? Whence water? Geographies of sources and flows: tap and bottled, cities, countryside.

6. Water quality technology: reservoir for storage, successive sand-filter beds.

9. Production and distribution. Metropolitan Water Board 1953

11. Edwin Chadwick: “ All smell is disease” 1831 The arrival of cholera in England at the port of Sunderland John Snow, 1854 The disputed discovery of water-borne cholera Robert Koch, 1883 Identification of Vibrio Cholerae Cholera

12. Bazalgette’s Low Level Intercept Sewer, 1860.

13. Taking shit out to sea: London’s solid sewage disposal 1887-1997

16. History in a “water” bill: still more a tax than a price