“Water is life” : developing community participation for clean water in rural South Africa

Acknowledgements We thank the study participants for agreeing to be part of the process, sharing their time and perspectives, and the VAPAR staff of the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt). We also thank the three peer reviewers for the insightful comments which helped improveimproved the paper. Permissions have been secured for the reproduction of all images. Funding This study was funded by the Health Systems Research Initiative from Department for International Development (DFID)/Medical Research Council (MRC)/Welcome Trust/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (MR/N005597/1 and MR/P014844/1). This work was nested within the MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), supported by the University of the Witwatersrand and Medical Research Council, South Africa. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors.