A molecular dynamics investigation of the structural and dynamic properties of the ionic liquid 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide J. Chem. Phys. 135, 124507 (2011) Dynamics of thermal diffusion in a linear temperature field J. Appl. Phys. 110, 044908 (2011) Soret motion in non-ionic binary molecular mixtures J. Chem. Phys. 135, 054102 (2011) On the coupling between slow diffusion transport and barrier crossing in nucleation J. Chem. Phys In this paper we investigate the dynamic properties of the minimal Bell-Lavis ͑BL͒ water model and their relation to the thermodynamic anomalies. The BL model is defined on a triangular lattice in which water molecules are represented by particles with three symmetric bonding arms interacting through van der Waals and hydrogen bonds. We have studied the model diffusivity in different regions of the phase diagram through Monte Carlo simulations. Our results show that the model displays a region of anomalous diffusion which lies inside the region of anomalous density, englobed by the line of temperatures of maximum density. Further, we have found that the diffusivity undergoes a dynamic transition which may be classified as fragile-to-strong transition at the critical line only at low pressures. At higher densities, no dynamic transition is seen on crossing the critical line. Thus evidence from this study is that relation of dynamic transitions to criticality may be discarded.