Issued certificates
- For
- An immediate need: a claim to back this year.
- You get
- Verified certificates, retired in your name with their evidence trail.Certificates retired in your name.
For corporate buyers
Buy proof, not promises.
One-cubic-metre certificates, measured, verified by an accredited third party and tied to a basin, to back your water commitments with proven results.Measured m³, verified, tied to a basin.
02Guarantees
The cubic metre you claim is the cubic metre saved.
Every certificate holds up to auditors, regulators and the press, because four things are true of it.Four things true of every certificate.
- Measured. Volumes come from meters and records, against a baseline.Meters and records, against a baseline.
- Verified by an accredited third party. A body accredited under ISO/IEC 17029 signs every verification; Veracity selects and pays it.An accredited body, paid by Veracity.
- Counted once. Each cubic metre is issued once and retired once, in your name; water, energy and carbon stay separate.Issued once, retired once.
- Basin context disclosed. Water stress informs your choice and the price; it never inflates the certified volume.It informs the price, never the volume.
03How to buy
Two ways to secure verified water results.
Co-funding
- For
- Future supply in the basins your sites depend on.
- You get
- Your share of the verified volume once issued; your funding helps the project get built.Your share once issued.
04Buying journey
From first brief to retirement.
- 01DefineYour basins, your volumes, your claim.
- 02MatchProjects and protocols that fit your commitments.
- 03ContractIssued certificates or co-funding, bilaterally.
- 04VerifyAgents check the data; an accredited body signs.
- 05Retire and reportRetired in your name, ready for reporting.
05Price and fees
A price set by value, public fees.
The certificate is priced bilaterally, from €1 to €10 per m³ depending on its value to you: the stress of your basin, the role of water in your process. Verification is charged per m³, at a rate that falls with volume.The certificate at €1 to €10 per m³; verification, degressive.
- Certificate price. Bilateral, from €1 to €10 per m³ depending on its total economic value.€1 to €10 per m³.
- Verification fee. From €0.40 down to €0.10 per m³ depending on your annual volume, published in the grid.€0.40 down to €0.10 per m³.
- Internal price of water. Your sector, your basin and your process set what a cubic metre is worth to you.What a m³ is worth to you.
06What you can say
Claim what matters to your strategy.
Each certificate carries verified indicators, its vintage and protocol version. You choose the ones that serve your commitments; each claim points back to its registry record.Verified indicators, each linked to its record.
- Location and basinWhere the water was saved, with its basin context.Where, and its basin.
- Project typeThe intervention you supported: efficiency, reuse, recharge.The intervention supported.
- Water volumeCubic metres saved, recovered or returned. One certificate, one cubic metre.One certificate, one m³.
- Water qualityFrom drinking water to process water.Drinking to process water.
- Energy and carbonkWh and kgCO₂e avoided per cubic metre, as verified metadata.kWh and kgCO₂e per m³.
- Water productivityWhat each cubic metre makes possible, as verified metadata.What each m³ makes possible.
“In [year], we retired [volume] m³ of drinking-water-grade savings in the [basin] basin, under high water stress, through [project type]. Verified under [protocol].”
07Registry
A registry built for traceability.
Every certificate has its public record.Every certificate has its public record.
- One cubic metre, one serial number. Each certificate is one cubic metre of water, with a unique serial number.One m³, one serial number.
- Who did what. Intervention, protocol version, issuer, verifier and beneficiary appear on every record.Intervention, protocol, verifier, beneficiary.
- Water first. Volume and quality come first; energy, carbon and productivity follow per cubic metre.Water first, then the rest per m³.
- Time-stamped and anchored. Issuance and retirement are time-stamped and anchored by a blockchain hash.Time-stamped, hash-anchored.
08Get started
Tell us where your water risk is.
We match your commitments with projects and verification that fit them.Commitments matched with projects.
+Questions
Does a WRC count towards a water-positive goal?
It records a verified volumetric benefit in a named basin, the unit water-positive programmes count. How you use it depends on your programme's rules.
Is a WRC a CSRD compliance instrument?
No. It is verified evidence that supports your ESRS E3 disclosure and defends a voluntary commitment.
Can a cubic metre be claimed twice?
No. It is issued once and retired once, for one claim, by one party.
Can I fund a project before certificates exist?
Yes. You can co-fund a project and claim your pro-rata share of its verified volume once issued.
How is the price set?
Bilaterally, from €1 to €10 per m³ depending on the certificate's value to you. The verification fee is published on the fees page.