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• Water alone will not decrease disease, nor reduce poverty;
• A campaign of water-borne disease understanding must be included with water supply;
• A change in behaviour is needed to keep water pure from tap to mouth;
• Sanitation must be included if water is to promote health;
• People must understand why they are doing, as well as how to do it;
• A water supply is an investment not a consumer good;
• Providing water is not free;
• Myths that water should be free need to be debunked (it may be a right to have free water, but it costs resources to get it from its source to the mouth);
• Giving a community free water promotes dependency and perpetuates poverty;
• Communities that contribute to their water supply will more likely maintain it;
• Politicians must be understood by the mobilizer;
• Politicians can help empower a community but are predisposed to promote dependency;
• Water committees should be transparent in their decisions and finances;
• Communities must organize any awareness raising campaigns;
• Communities need to learn how to manage their water supplies;
• Communities must decide the appropriate sources of water;
• Communities must decide the appropriate technology for providing water;
• No single technology is best for every condition;
• Communities are advised to have a mix of technologies;
• Communities should calculate per capita costs of supplying water;
• Communities must decide how to recover costs;
• Communities must decide if fees or rates should be used;
• Communities must distinguish between capital costs and operating costs; and
• Communities must manage their own water supply facilities.

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