Depinder Kapur is a senior Development and WASH expert, leading the Sanitation Capacity Building Platform at the National Institute of Urban Affairs in New Delhi. He has worked in leadership positions with national and international development organizations including heading WaterAid India, and also with several Indian and international organizations, the Government and civil society grassroot initiatives on research and advocacy.
A 1995 Pacific Institute report, California Water 2020: A Sustainable Vision, offered compelling support for the argument that alternative approaches... Read more...
In 1990, the Government of Zimbabwe, embarked on an Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) to reduce public sector spending and introduce... Read more...
Using data from a sample of 69 households in Ukunda village, Kenya, the traditional approach to the modeling of water demand for villages in... Read more...
This study is based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and attempts to clarify some of the problems associated with extraction of revenues from vulnerable... Read more...
This paper covers several common goals of user charges: good governance, financial sustainability, distributive justice, economic efficiency, and... Read more...
This paper explains the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) position on user charges and shows the issues that influence this position. Read more...