The authors regret that the Acknowledgements section was not included in their original paper and apologise for any inconvenience caused. The Acknowledgements are given below and the online version of the paper has been updated.

This paper is framed within Carolina Blanco Moreno's doctoral research ‘Associativity for the strengthening and recognition of Community Water Management in Valle del Cauca, Colombia’, supervised by Prof. Mario Perez at CINARA Institute, Cali, Colombia. This doctoral research was funded by MINCIENCIAS, Colombia (Call 727, 2015). This publication was supported by the Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub financed by the GCRF (Global Challenges Research Fund) of Research and Innovation of the United Kingdom (subvention No. ES/S008179/1).

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