Tools
Sixteen working aids you can use this week
Grouped by the job you need to do. Every tool runs in your browser with no accounts or tracking, and each one adds its results to your board briefing pack. Not sure where to begin? Answer two questions and get a path.
1 · Start & diagnose
Get a baseline: where does your system stand, and what can the public actually see?
Start here
Choose your role and what's coming up; get an ordered path through the tools with time estimates.
Find your path → Interactive · radar profileOECD 12-principle self-assessment
Rate all 12 OECD water-governance principles and get a radar chart, dimension scores and three priorities.
Score your system → Interactive · 18 checksGovernance self-check
Budgets, oversight, waste and fair allocation, with a live four-pillar gap summary.
Open self-check → Interactive · 20 indicators NewPublic reporting scorecard
Which core indicators does your utility publish? Get a transparency score and a ready-made information request.
Check transparency →2 · Money & assets
Is the system paying for its own upkeep, or quietly running down?
Budget transparency questions
Ten concrete questions for a finance briefing, each with the reason it matters.
Open questions → Interactive · calculator NewPipe renewal gap
At today's pace, how long must pipes last? Renewal rate, replacement cycle, funding gap and backlog.
Calculate the gap → Interactive · tariff testHousehold affordability calculator
The bill as a share of income against the 3% benchmark. Test tariff changes, fixed charges and lifeline blocks.
Test affordability →3 · Losses, scarcity & wastewater
Where does water go, how long will it last, and what happens after the drain?
Water balance, NRW & ILI
Separate leaks from metering and billing gaps, chart the balance and compute the Infrastructure Leakage Index.
Open the calculator → Interactive · 3 scenarios NewDrought runway
Days of supply to a critical reservoir level with no action, restrictions, and restrictions plus loss reduction.
Estimate the runway → Topic + 16-point check NewSanitation & wastewater
Storm overflows, the recast EU wastewater directive's deadlines, and a check on treatment, money and access.
Review wastewater →4 · Integrity
Where money and discretion meet, check before anyone signs.
5 · Meetings, records & reporting
Turn findings into a meeting, a decision trail and a printable packet.
Quarterly oversight agenda
A 90-minute agenda template. Fill fields in your browser, copy as text or print.
Open agenda → Table · CSV exportDecision log
Date, decision, criteria, who decided, public minutes link and review date.
Open log → Print · PDF · text NewBoard briefing pack
Collects the results of every tool you used on this device into one printable packet.
Build the pack → Downloadable 4-page PDFPrintable board field guide
The 18 checks, the IWA water balance table, 10 budget questions and 16 red flags in one PDF.
Download PDF ⬇6 · Evidence & reference
The frameworks, numbers and real-world cases behind the tools.
Research & sources
Key numbers, the OECD principles, losses and ILI, integrity, assets, wastewater, scarcity and a timeline to 2045.
Explore research → Evidence · 12 casesCase studies
From Phnom Penh to the Murray–Darling: what changed, the lesson, and what to ask your board.
Read the cases → Four pillarsApproach & next steps
Budgets, oversight, limiting waste and fair distribution, each with steps you can take.
Read approach → Searchable · 36 termsPlain-language glossary
NRW, ILI, storm overflows, p.e., renewal rate, extraction caps, performance contracts and more.
Open glossary →