sentences:  In rural communities and small towns with less than 10,000 inhabitants water associations provide services, while technical assistance and financing are provided by the National Environmental Sanitation Service (SENASA).The Juntas are grouped in 10 associations which supply water to more than half of country's population The first Juntas were created with the assistance of the World Bank's first rural water and sanitation loan to Paraguay in 1977, fostering a successful long-term partnership that endures until today.An interesting phenomenon in Paraguay is the emergence of independent private suppliers, called “aguateros”, since the 1970s.