Municipal & regional staff
Utility managers, finance and planning officers who need structured prompts before budget and capital cycles.
For municipal & regional water decision-makers
Practical tools for better water-infrastructure governance.
Checklists, question sets, and meeting templates you can use this week — to clarify budgets, strengthen oversight, limit waste, and discuss fair allocation. Working aids for public interest, not a paid product catalogue.
Who this helps
Built for people who decide, oversee, or ask hard questions
Oversight boards & auditors
Commissioners and review bodies who want a repeatable agenda and a clear decision trail.
Civic groups
Residents and advocates who need concrete questions and checklists — not slogans.
What you get today
Tangible working aids — ready to print or fill in
Each tool works in the browser and can be used offline after you open it once. Nothing here is a certified audit or legal advice.
Interactive
Governance self-check
Budgets, oversight, waste/NRW, and fair allocation — with progress saved in your browser.
Open self-check → PrintableBudget transparency questions
Ten concrete questions a board or civic group can ask — each with why it matters.
Open questions → FillableOversight meeting agenda
A quarterly water-governance agenda template with fillable fields.
Open agenda → TableDecision log template
Record allocation and priority decisions: criteria, who decided, minutes link, review date.
Open log → FrameworkFour-pillar approach
Budgets, oversight, limiting waste, fair distribution — each with doable next steps.
Read approach → ReferencePlain-language glossary
Non-revenue water, ring-fenced budgets, tariffs, deferred maintenance, and more.
Open glossary →How to use
Start small, stay accountable
Pick one tool
Begin with the checklist or the budget questions before your next board or budget meeting.
Fill gaps honestly
Unchecked items and unanswered questions are the point — they show where disclosure or process is thin.
Record decisions
Use the decision log so trade-offs are visible later — to staff, boards, and the public.
Questions or feedback?
Humanity Solutions welcomes constructive notes on these drafts. Write to connectwithus@humanitysolutions.net.
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