For food and beverage companies, water funds and foundations
Funding water work on California orchards? We would agree the meter and field records your proposed program needs. Probe reading summaries are signed from signing forward. The project agreement and any required review would determine what a sponsor could claim.
Interested in the groundwater program we are developing? Review its current status and proposed process.
The problem
A water outcome is only as strong as the records under it. Each figure should say whether it is measured or estimated, where it came from and how it supports the proposed claim. A meter reading recorded the same way before and after the work began can be traced line by line; an estimate carries its basis beside it.
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
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.
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.
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.
Probe reading summaries are signed and tamper-evident from signing forward. Signing of well-meter records is planned. An auditor can check that a signed summary has not changed since signing.
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.
How the records are checked
Probe reading summaries are sealed in batches, using our patent-pending technology, so the record is tamper-evident from the point of signing forward. Well-meter record signing is planned. 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.
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 a sample signed recordThe signed probe reading summaries have not changed since signing.
The signing time recorded with each summary.
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
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Which wells and blocks are in the program, and how long a baseline the program’s method asks for.
02
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.
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What the funder and the grower would receive, how often, and which signed probe reading summaries and meter records sit behind it.
For a data-service project, we would supply the agreed records. For the groundwater program in development, the project agreement would define each party’s role. Independent review remains separate from project delivery. 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
Our records come from Central Valley almond, pistachio and citrus farms.
Sourcing from California permanent-crop growers and funding water work in that supply base.
Paying for groundwater outcomes on California farms, with a measured record needed for each farm funded.
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.
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 shows orchard growers their water use against their groundwater allocation each week. On Platform, your own Certified Crop Adviser or adviser makes the call. On Managed, our Certified Crop Adviser does.
