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| coauthors = C. Fonseca

| title = Supporting community management of rural water supplies

| date = 2001

}}</ref> When talking ‘management’ with communities it is needed to realise that people have been managing water, agriculture and other community development activities for ages. There is no need to establish a new management arrangement where the existing one has proven to be effective. It is also needed to realise that the way water supply systems are managed is not necessarily the same for all communities. At the same time, many management arrangements in the past concerned individual or family owned systems, which are very different from community systems.