Acknowledgements

At the back of this book are the names and contact details of the 29 authors, reviewers and other contributors who took part in its production. Small Community Water Supplies: Technology, People and Partnership has drawn strength from the diversity of their backgrounds and their specialist knowledge. IRC acknowledges each of their contributions with appreciation and gratitude.

We remain indebted too to the original authors: Professor L. Huisman (Netherlands); Professor J.M. de Azevedo Netto (Brazil); Dr B.B. Sundaresan (India); and Dr J.N. Lanoix (WHO, Switzerland). It is a testimony to their expertise and insights that text they contributed more than two decades ago survives unaltered in quite a few sections of this updated handbook.

Thanks go to IRC staff members Jo Smet and Christine van Wijk for technical and social editing respectively, and to Brian Appleton for overall editing. The drawings were done by Hans Emeis and the design and desktop publishing by Fabrique. Loekie Broersma undertook the formidable task of drawing together the multiple contributions and Sascha de Graaf managed the publication process. Thanks to them all.

Finally, the book would not have been produced at all without welcome financial support from the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the Netherlands.