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== Cost sharing for capital investment ==
People contribute, thus enhancing ownership and ensuring that service responds to demand
Increasingly accepted as best practice and mainstreamed into many national policies, especially in rural sector. Users contribute in cash or kind or pay connection fee. Increasingly also needed for replacement and large repairs. Poor need support through differentiation in contributions. A 1999 report of the Swajal project in UP, India claims that for the first time in India users are paying 10% of the investment cost of water supply.
(http://www.wsp.org/publications/sa_indiapoor.pdf). The NGO Dustha Shasthya Kendra in Dhaka has negotiated with the water authority to locate at least 90 community water points in slum areas, providing improved water to more than 8,000 poor households. Before a site is built, the community signs an agreement with DSK that covers its obligations to run the site and the charges made to recover the costs of the water, maintenance and capital costs.
(http://www.developments.org.uk/data/issue21/for-sale.htm). High potential to reach also poorer sections of the community, if properly targeted
== Cross subsidies ==