{
  "fact_id": "groundwater.program",
  "title": "AgWaterAI groundwater program",
  "spec_version": "v1.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-10-07T00:00:00Z",
  "as_of": "2026-10-07",
  "canonical_url": "https://agwaterai.com/ai/facts/groundwater-program.json",
  "program_status": {
    "label": "Program status, October 2026",
    "text": "This program is being set up. No sponsor has signed, no volume has been independently validated, no independent validator is appointed yet, and no methodology has been approved. An independent pre-validation review has been requested. Everything below describes how projects will work."
  },
  "numbers": [
    {
      "name": "Benchmark efficiency",
      "label": "Efficiency against a published benchmark, for the farm's own fields. A performance claim, not a reduction.",
      "availability": "Available now from one full season of the farm’s own pump records or meters, or of the GSA’s satellite ETAW. Run-time estimates are labelled as estimated."
    },
    {
      "name": "Measured reduction",
      "label": "Measured reduction against the farm's own weather-adjusted history. Measured and signed by AgWaterAI, not independently validated.",
      "availability": "2027 season, where the required history and measurement conditions are met."
    },
    {
      "name": "Validated benefit",
      "label": "Validated volumetric benefit under VWBA 2.0, baseline capped at the allocation, independent validator named.",
      "availability": "2027 vintage, validated after the 2027 season and independent review."
    }
  ],
  "grower_promises": [
    "No sale or transfer of the water left in the ground, for the benefit period.",
    "No added irrigated acres on the enrolled farm unit, for the benefit period."
  ],
  "grower_keeps": "The grower keeps allocation and water rights",
  "sponsor_condition": "Nothing is promised until a sponsor signs",
  "method_version": "Method v1.1, October 7, 2026",
  "public_lookup": "https://agwaterai.com/verify/unit",
  "signing": "The signing method is patent-pending. The signature is re-checked on every public lookup. Signing does not establish measurement accuracy or independent validation.",
  "privacy": "Public records show region, crop, season and acres rounded to the nearest 10, never the farm.",
  "decisions": "The crop adviser makes every irrigation call.",
  "accounting": "One volumetric claim per block and season. The grower does not sell or transfer the water behind a recorded reduction. Screen for public programs. VWBA 2.0 is accounting guidance; a named independent validator must complete review before a benefit is described as validated.",
  "pricing": "Sponsor pricing is set once sponsors give their indications.",
  "zero_season": "A zero or negative season stays in the record as a zero. Measured volume is paid when measured.",
  "routes": [
    "https://agwaterai.com/water-buyers",
    "https://agwaterai.com/water-buyers/questions",
    "https://agwaterai.com/water-credits",
    "https://agwaterai.com/water-credits/method",
    "https://agwaterai.com/water-credits/check",
    "https://agwaterai.com/verify",
    "https://agwaterai.com/verify/unit",
    "https://agwaterai.com/research/how-orchard-water-use-is-measured-signed-and-sponsored",
    "https://agwaterai.com/ai/facts/groundwater-program.json"
  ]
}