Abstract
The problem of scarcity of water is known to everyone in today’s time and the need for tackling it is a required
notion wherein different approaches to deal with the problem has to be acknowledged. The different process
involvesthe much-focussed process of IWRM (Integrated water resource management) wherein the need for
‘community participation’ has been seen as an important element. It has been thought that‘community
participation’can be the process of understanding and overcoming problems to rebuild the people’s lives, tackle
some water-related problems for providing clean and sufficient water, although it is not panacea solving all the
problems faced in the water sector. It is important to understand that the community should be the main actors in
preparing their community action plan. To have this plan to be formulated better effective policies to be framed
and applied in water governance. As community participation involves various kinds of people from different
sectors within the community, it creates more scope for better policy implementations.The role of religion and
its community people in both negative and positive aspects have to been commonly found which has to be
assessed. Thepolicies to push community participation at all levels needs a careful examination of communities
as each community has its unique and complicated characteristics wherein there are some disadvantaged
communitypeople whose role has to be assessed and the ways to tackle the situation in matters employed with
the approach.This paperoverviews some of those aspects related to community participation in water sustainable
management with role of government policies involved in it for improving the practices of IWRM with effective
involvementof communities in the delivery of knowledge in the water-related area

Key words: Water, Management, Community-Participation, Disadvantaged, Religion