For food and beverage companies, water funds and foundations
Measured water records for the farms you fund.
Funding water work on California permanent-crop farms? We can supply the meter, field and signed records a program needs. Talk to us. The project developer, the verifier and the funder own the benefit claim; we would supply the measured data.
Want us to run the project end to end instead? See our groundwater program for sponsors.
The problem
Impact has to be shown with measured data, not estimates.
A water outcome is only as strong as the numbers under it. A volume taken from a model or an assumption gives a reviewer little to check. A volume read from a meter at the pump, recorded the same way before and after the work began, can be traced line by line.
We don’t sell a savings number or a credit. We can supply the measured record that a benefit claim has to stand on.
What we can supply
The measured inputs a program needs.
A measured baseline
Applied water from the grower’s own well meters, each figure dated to its meter’s last reading. How long a baseline runs is set by the program’s method, and we would agree it with you before anything changes on the farm.
With-project applied water
The same meters, read the same way, for as long as the project runs, with a monthly record for each meter. A missed month shows as missing, not filled in.
Tree stress, measured
Soil moisture at several depths, and pressure-chamber readings taken on the trees, would show whether the trees were stressed while the water changed. A pressure chamber measures the water potential of the trees themselves.
Signed, tamper-evident records
Reading summaries are kept in a signed, tamper-evident record, so an auditor can check that nothing changed after signing.
Reporting, agreed with you
What the funder and the grower receive, how often, and which signed records sit behind it is something we would agree with you for the program. Talk to us.
Applied water is not consumptive use.
A meter counts all the water pumped, including water that drains below the roots. Consumptive use is the water incorporated into the crop or lost to evapotranspiration (ET). Programs that account for consumptive use pair applied-water records with ET data. Talk to us about how ours would fit.
How the records are verified
Signed records an auditor can check without us.
Reading summaries are sealed in batches as they come in, using our patent-pending technology, so the record is tamper-evident from the point of signing forward. With the grower’s permission, an auditor can receive the records and our public key and run the check with tools of their own, without relying on our servers.
See it on a demo record
A made-up farm with fourteen days of soil readings, sealed and signed the same way a real record is. Change a reading and watch the check fail. Every check runs in your browser.
Open the demo recordWhat a signed record shows, and what it doesn’t
It shows
- The reading summaries, and the reports built on them, have not changed since they were sealed.
- When each record was sealed.
It doesn’t show
- That a sensor or meter was installed and calibrated correctly. A field audit does that.
- Any water-savings figure. That needs a baseline and a stated method.
- Anything from before a record was signed, or data that was never collected.
Before a program starts
What we would work out with you.
The baseline
Which wells and blocks are in the program, and how long a baseline the program’s method asks for.
The measurements
The meters, soil probes and pressure-chamber readings each farm would need, and who takes them. Irrigation decisions stay with the grower and their agronomist.
The reporting
What the funder and the grower would receive, how often, and which signed meter and soil records sit behind it.
Who does what
The project developer, the verifier and the funder own the benefit claim, including how it is calculated and verified. We would supply the measured data and the signed records behind it. Our records are built to supply the measured inputs that volumetric water benefit accounting relies on.
We are not a verifier, a registry or a credit seller, and we do not certify water benefits.
Who it’s for
Funders, and the growers they work with.
Our records come from Central Valley citrus, almond and pistachio farms.
Food and beverage companies
Sourcing from California permanent-crop growers and funding water work in that supply base.
Water funds and foundations
Paying for groundwater outcomes on California farms, with a measured record needed for each farm funded.
Growers
Farm records stay private to the grower. A funder or auditor would check them with the grower’s permission, and the grower would see the same reporting as the funder.
Talk to us about a program.
Tell us the region, the crops and the outcome you fund. We’ll tell you what we can measure there and what a program would take.
AgWaterAI is irrigation decision software that shows permanent-crop growers their water use against their groundwater allocation each week, built on proprietary field data and delivered through the grower's own crop adviser.