During the Enabling Water Smart Communities (EWSC) project, we have worked with our project partners to develop a series of insight articles. These cover a range of areas and topics, from the underlying methodology behind the EWSC project, to working with and understanding communities, and how we can make water smart communities a reality.

We have a list of our latest articles below, available via the Medium platform (take a look at our page here). You can also catch-up on insights shared in a recent ‘Communities Workshop’ here (coming soon).

Articles list:

• Beyond the usual: Public appraisals of diverse UK water futures

• Sustainable water systems and practices for new housing

• Making Water Smart Communities work

• Opening up engagement with sustainable water futures

• Engaging Communities as Co-Stewards

• Awareness and collaboration between institutions for water smart communities

• Community Land Trusts and water stewardship

• Engaging communities for water smart futures: insights and innovations

• People’s perspectives on the future of water and housing

• Mobilising collective action through design-led approaches

• Enhancing stewardship and decision-making for sustainable water management

• Amplifying impact through Anchor Networks

• Mitigating water-related risks through local stewardship

• Essential frameworks for the sustainable development of common goods

• Mitigating water-related risks through integrated asset management

• How to implement and benefit from a multi-value flow in local communities

• EWSC Key Insight Summary

• Place-based stewardship in other sectors

• Shaping local economies through anchor activity

• Water Companies as Place-based Anchors

• Challenges facing the housing sector

• Challenges connecting the housing and water sector

• Transitioning towards Water Smart Communities​

• Making the value case for action towards wider outcomes

• Actors, roles and value(s)

• Rethinking Value

• Rethinking Stewardship

• Rethinking Assets