For water authorities

Make experience reusable for your water challenge.

iSyNAPS originated in municipal practice. With a Dutch water authority, we therefore first assess whether the modular approach fits one concrete water, climate, asset, area-based or digital-transformation challenge.

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From municipal to water practice

Different responsibilities. A familiar need for coherence.

Water authorities work across programmes, data and organisational boundaries. An exploration reveals where previous experience, portfolio information and professional assessment could support a work process — and where adaptation to the water sector is required.

Potential value

Explore what can transfer to your context.

The municipal origin is a starting point, not evidence that every module is immediately suitable.

Retrieve project experience

Explore which lessons, decisions and preconditions from previous projects are relevant.

Portfolio and capacity

Make relationships between initiatives, programmes, dependencies and resources easier to discuss.

Learn across boundaries

Record findings so other water authorities can assess what may transfer.

Assess applicability first

Do not copy a municipal solution one-to-one.

We do not begin with implementation. We first investigate where the approach fits and which domain-specific adaptations are required.

  1. 01

    Select the work moment

    Choose one concrete question in project preparation, portfolio, capacity or area-based work.

  2. 02

    Map the context

    Describe roles, sector terminology, systems, data and legal conditions.

  3. 03

    Select the approach

    Assess whether a module fits, requires adaptation or should begin as a knowledge exploration.

  4. 04

    Test on a limited scale

    Test the approach with the professionals involved and criteria agreed in advance.

  5. 05

    Assess transferability

    Record what is specific to the case and what may be useful to other water authorities.

Principles

Public control and sector-specific care.

Applicability is assessed for each work process and case.

Assess each case

The concrete challenge and work process determine whether the approach is suitable.

Respect domain differences

Sector terminology, standards and architecture are not assumed to be interchangeable.

Review conditions separately

Privacy, information security, continuity and procurement each require assessment.

Professionals assess

Authorised water-authority professionals evaluate the output.

Knowledge under agreement

Knowledge is only shared or reused under conditions agreed in advance.

Frequently asked questions

About applicability for water authorities

Has iSyNAPS already been proven within water authorities?

The approach and modules originated in municipal practice. We therefore do not present them as an off-the-shelf implementation for water authorities. Applicability must be assessed for each case.

Which challenges could be suitable for an exploration?

Potential examples include project preparation, portfolio and capacity questions, asset or area-based cooperation, knowledge transfer and aspects of digital transformation.

Can other water authorities reuse the result?

Possibly, but not automatically. We distinguish case-specific choices from transferable findings and agree what may be shared.

Other roles

Do you contribute to public challenges from a different role?

Choose the route that fits your responsibility.

Public control

Municipalities

Start with one municipal case and retain control over assessment and what happens next.

For municipalities

Practice trial

Innovators

Bring a new application into a bounded and testable public-practice setting.

For innovators

Responsible connection

Partners and suppliers

Connect established expertise responsibly to a public challenge.

For partners

Your water challenge

Where does your work process need greater coherence or better reuse of experience?

Bring one concrete challenge, the related work moment and the roles involved. We will explore whether a module, adapted prototype or knowledge track would be a suitable first step.

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