Certified Water Sustainability
When you see the SWIIM Certified™ logo on a sign in a field, on a grower’s product in the store, on their website, on a certificate in their office or elsewhere, you know that item was grown with the upmost respect for water sustainability efforts. SWIIM Certification™ is an independent, third-party confirmation of crop-water budgets. SWIIM only certifies product produced from a SWIIM water balance-monitored field. Many growers claim to be committed to conserving water. SWIIM quantifies this commitment by giving participating growers audited data to ensure that they are meeting their water sustainability goals.
Our full-time quality assurance department tracks participating grower’s data as it comes in throughout the season in the form of a weekly provisional report and ultimately provides a year-end, audited report at the conclusion of each crop season. These audited reports allow SWIIM to back these growers commitment to water sustainability in their respective communities being good stewards of their water resources. They submit to intense monitoring of their fields of both applied and consumed water. They also receive detailed irrigation efficiency reporting each week and work with our team to improve their irrigation methods. Assuming a grower qualifies, we will approve the grower to use this certification on their product and in their marketing materials.
This process can also allow for ease of state and district water use reporting and exceeds the data required in most regions. SWIIM also has the power to identify, quantify and monitor a whole new “bucket” of water not previously considered by most for conservation of on-farm water allotments.
Active SWIIM Certified™ Growers
Click on the link below to view a list of growers that are currently SWIIM Certified™ on at least a portion of their sites and approved to use the SWIIM Certification™ on their products and other promotional material. We update this list regularly as clients qualify for certification. Not all SWIIM clients are necessarily certified – growers must specifically apply and be approved for this certification. This list is regularly updated.
GROWERS
An easy-to-use interface designed for farmers, ranchers and other water right owners to optimize their farm income and water use. Co-developed under a multi-year research and development contract with the US Department of Agriculture, the system utilizes region-specific data, which is compared against real-life activities in the field.
WATER MANAGERS
An interface designed for water managers including ditch companies, irrigation districts, large-scale corporate growers and farming co-ops. The package is designed to allow for aggregation of a series of planned fields water budgets. This includes monitoring and reporting of actual applied and consumed water use within a region.