Veracity
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The water
resilience
certificate.

Scientific, agentic certification that unlocks revenue, capital and regulatory access for a water-smart economy.

Project developersCorporate buyersFunders
Evidence · Impact · Value
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01 — The problem
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Water is twenty years
behind carbon.
Its impacts are not.

Carbon benefits from project methodologies, registries and market mechanisms. Water, our most precious resource, has none of these, even as droughts and shortages already hit businesses and communities.

We build the missing infrastructure for a water‑positive economy.

World
40%

gap between freshwater demand and supply by 20301

World
4bn

people face severe water scarcity at least one month a year2

EuropeEU
30%

of Europeans live under water stress in an average year3

EuropeEU
23bn EUR

investment gap each year to finance EU water resilience4

Why water, why now
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02 — The language of climate finance
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Climate finance speaks one language:
the certificate.

But a certificate’s value rests on the rigour of the protocol behind it: the accounting standard for impact. No protocol, no certificate.

Protocol
Certificate
Market· size
Energy
I-REC, EN 16325
→
Guarantee of origin
→
Green power780bn USD/yr5
Carbon
Verra, Gold Standard
→
Carbon credit
→
Carbon markets900bn USD/yr6
Green debt
Green Bond Principles
→
Green bond
→
Bond market670bn USD/yr7
Water
NEXUS protocols
→
WRC certificate
→
Water financeTo be built
The protocol is the market key
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03 — Our answer
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Channel climate finance
into water-positive projects.

Veracity builds the incentive market mechanisms that turn every m³ saved, reused or restored into a financeable asset.

The capital available

Global climate finance

2tn USD

a year, a record in 2024. Water captures only a small share.8

The catalyst · Veracity

Incentive market mechanisms

WRC certificatesverified m³, retired in the buyer's name
Performance contractspaid on measured results
Results-linked financeloans and bonds tied to evidence
The need to finance

Water investment needed

1tn USD

a year worldwide, three times today's level.1

Today, over 90% of water finance is public9
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04 — Our markets
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Four untapped water sources.
One protocol for each.

Our products are our protocols: each one opens the market for a water source.

WRC-NRW

Network leakage

World
126bn m³

of drinking water lost in networks every year10

Europe
33%

of water abstracted for public supply lost before reaching users11

WRC-IWR

Water reuse

World
188bn m³

of wastewater treated every year. Only 22% is reused.12

Europe
40bn m³

of wastewater treated every year in the EU. Only 2.4% is reused.13

WRC-IRR

Efficient irrigation

World
608bn m³

consumed every year with no benefit to crops14

Europe
20%

potential savings on water abstracted by agriculture11

Protocol coming

Industrial cooling

World
770bn m³

withdrawn by industry every year: power plants, data centres, food processing15

Europe
72bn m³

withdrawn every year to cool power plants: 36% of EU water abstraction11

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05 — The infrastructure
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An agentic infrastructure
for water certification.

→ Inputs · raw data Data providers SCADAOperator telemetry SatelliteRemote sensing AI modellingCalculation · detection · anomalies Developer dataPDD · boundary and baseline ↓ Partner channel dMRV partners Measurement · reporting · verification VERACITY Agentic certification MRV protocol›Traceability›Registry ↑ Independent assurance Accredited verifiers ← Certificates issued · water WRC-NRW Network leakage(2026) WRC-IWR Industrial reuse(2026) WRC-IRR Efficient irrigation(Q1 2027) WRC-RWH Rainwater harvesting(Q2 2027) WRC-AWH Atmospheric water(Q3 2027) WRC-MAR Aquifer recharge(Q4 2027)
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06 — How it works
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Agents verify.
Experts sign the proof.

01 · COLLECTION

Data

Meters, field, satellite, laboratory.

02 · AI

Agents verify

Every data point tested against the protocol.

03 · HUMAN

Experts sign

Review of flagged cases, scientific validation.

04 · REGISTRY

Proof published

Public registry, full audit trail.

Conventional certification
12–24 months Veracity
÷10 · weeks
Any project can be certified, whatever its size
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07 — Who it's for
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One proof. Three players.

WRC certificate · 1 verified m³
Prove · certify

Project developers

Value that is proven, and sellable.

Claim

Corporate buyers

Verified m³ to meet their Water Positive pledge.

Finance

Funders

Tracked performance, to finance on evidence.

Every certified result serves the whole market.

One registry record, from actor to actor
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For project developers
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Your impact is
never valued.

Your solution saves water and carbon for your clients. Without independent proof, that value stays out of your offer.

Project developers · eco-techs
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For project developers
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Three ways to monetise your performance.

01 · Prove to sell

Impact Case

Your impact assessed at the scale of your deployment.

Value delivered
  • Quantified impact: m³, kWh and tCO₂e avoided
  • A case file for investors, clients and tenders
  • Eligible for labels such as Solar Impulse
02 · Get paid on results

Performance contract

Sell a result, not equipment.

Value delivered
  • The client's CAPEX becomes OPEX
  • Payment indexed on saved, verified m³
  • Results measured by a trusted third party
03 · Sell certificates

WRC certificate

Every verified m³ becomes an asset to sell.

Value delivered
  • Recurring revenue, for every verified m³
  • Access to Water Positive buyers and funders
  • Asset tracked in the registry, counted once
One measurement · each volume claimed only once
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For project developers
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From project to certificate.

Phase 0

Impact Case

Assess your impact at the scale of your deployment.

2 weeks
Step 1

PDD design and validation

Boundary, baseline and monitoring plan, validated against the protocol.

2 to 3 weeks
Step 2

Monitoring and agentic certification

dMRV: agents check every data point, the expert signs.

Continuous
Step 3

Registry and issuance

WRCs are issued, serialised and recorded in the public registry.

First WRCs at 2–3 months
then every month
Preliminary assessment
First certificates 2 to 3 months after the Impact Case
One measurement, from first assessment to certificate
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For buyers · WRC certificate
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Billions of m³
to give back by 2030.

Water stewardship leaders already fund projects that give water back. What they lack is a verified, comparable m³: the WRC certificate.

Coca-Cola
2bn m³

to give back to nature by 2030.16

Data centers
1.2bn m³

of water a year by 2030, twice today's level.17

Microsoft
104M m³

already contracted.18

Google · AWS · Nestlé
70M m³

a year, already given back or committed.19

Already giving water backGoogleMicrosoftAmazonCoca-ColaPepsiCoNestléDanone
With AI, the volumes to give back will double by 2030
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For corporate buyers
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Meet your
Water Positive pledge
with verified m³.

One m³ saved, reused or restored, in a named basin, in a given year. Retired only once, in your name.

Aligned methodologiesVWBA 2.0 · WRIWQBA · WRIBioBA · CEO Water MandateISO 14046
For your reportingCSRD ESRS E3CDP Water SecurityGRI 303AWS StandardSBTN Freshwater
Also: pay for a water solution on its verified results · performance contract
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For funders
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Finance water resilience
on evidence.

Every euro follows verified performance, from project to portfolio.

01

Banks and funds

Faster due diligence, objective risk, tracking by project or across a portfolio.

02

Sustainable finance

Taxonomy eligibility, green bonds and evidence-linked loans.

03

Payments for ecosystem services

Water agencies, local authorities and downstream companies pay for the verified water outcome.

Banks · funds · impact investors · water agencies · local authorities
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08 — The mechanism
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One project. Three winners.

Illustrative exampleLeakage reduction · WRC-NRW600,000 m³ saved a year
Funder

Fronts the CAPEX

What they gainAn asset backed by verified revenue.
Capital
Developer

Cuts leakage

What they gainPaid on results, without carrying the investment alone.
m³ saved
Veracity

Certifies every m³

Its roleTrusted third party: verifies, issues, records.
WRC
Corporate buyer

Retires the WRCs

What they gainIts Water Positive pledge, proven and reportable.
WRC payments subsidise the developer
Every m³ verified once, claimed only once
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International alignment
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Aligned with international
water initiatives.

World Resources Institute
World Resources Institute

VWBA 2.0 · WQBA

Volumetric and quality benefits, counted with the reference method.

ISO
ISO

ISO 14046 · 14065

Water footprint and verification in line with international standards.

Commission européenne
European Commission

Water Resilience Strategy

2025 strategy: efficiency, reuse and recharge as the EU's levers.

Alliance for Water Stewardship
Alliance for Water Stewardship

AWS Standard 2.0

Water stewardship at site and catchment scale.

CEO Water Mandate
CEO Water Mandate

Net Positive Water Impact

The corporate net positive water goal, led by the Water Resilience Coalition.

Verified m³, readable in every reporting framework
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Next step
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Prove, claim, finance.
Let's find your path.

Project developers

Impact Case

2 weeks. Your impact assessed, your project ready to certify.

Corporate buyers

WRC certificates

Verified m³, in your basins, retired in your name.

Funders

Result-based Finance

Tracked performance, to finance on water-positive evidence

Evidence · Impact · Value
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Sources
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Sources.

  1. Global Commission on the Economics of Water (2024), The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good
  2. UN-Water (2024), United Nations World Water Development Report
  3. European Environment Agency (2024), Europe's state of water 2024
  4. JRC, European Commission: annual investment gap for EU water resilience
  5. International Energy Agency (2025), World Energy Investment 2025: about USD 780 bn invested in renewable power in 2025
  6. LSEG (2025), Carbon Market Year in Review 2025: EUR 791 bn traded on compliance carbon markets in 2025, about USD 900 bn
  7. Climate Bonds Initiative (2025), Global State of the Market 2024: USD 672 bn of green bonds issued in 2024
  8. Climate Policy Initiative (2025, 2026), Global Landscape of Climate Finance: USD 1.9tn in 2023, over USD 2tn in 2024
  9. OECD (2022), Financing a Water Secure Future: public share of water finance
  10. Liemberger and Wyatt (2019), Quantifying the global non-revenue water problem, Water Supply: 126 bn m³ per year
  11. European Environment Agency (2025), Water savings for a water-resilient Europe
  12. Jones et al. (2021), Earth System Science Data: 188 bn m³ of wastewater treated per year, of which 40.7 bn m³ reused
  13. European Commission, Water reuse: over 40 bn m³ of wastewater treated per year, about 1 bn m³ reused
  14. Jägermeyr et al. (2015), Hydrology and Earth System Sciences: 608 km³ of non-beneficial irrigation consumption
  15. FAO AQUASTAT: about 770 bn m³ withdrawn by industry per year, power plant cooling included, i.e. 19% of global withdrawals
  16. Coca-Cola, 2030 water goals
  17. IEA (2025), Energy and AI
  18. Microsoft (2025), Environmental Sustainability Report
  19. Google, Amazon, Nestlé : 2024–2025 water reports
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