N-Drip: Sustainable Water Replenishment Program

Why Water Replenishment Matters

Water is a critical resource for industries, and responsible stewardship – especially for public-facing companies – is essential. Data centers, food and beverage manufacturers, and other industrial facilities consume millions of gallons daily, often impacting local water supplies. Without proactive replenishment, these industries risk straining community resources and facing resistance when seeking permit renewals or expansion. By partnering with N-Drip, companies can offset their water use and contribute to a net-neutral or net-positive watershed balance—ensuring long-term sustainability, strengthening community relations, and securing their license to operate.

Water Replenishment Goal: The water-user client selects an amount of water to be replenished (in the target water basin).
Farm Recruitment: N-Drip identifies and partners with farmers who use flood irrigation (in the target water basin).
Irrigation Transformation: Flood-irrigated fields are converted to N-Drip’s gravity-powered micro-irrigation system.
Continuous Monitoring: N-Drip Connect provides real-time data and regular reporting on water savings.
Third-Party Validation: Independent institutions verify water savings to issue water credits.
Corporate Replenishment Goals Achieved: The water-user client replenishes all of the water used, often exceeding sustainability targets.

N-Drip Manages the Entire Process with Full Transparency on Behalf of the Water-User Client

A Scalable, Measurable, and Built-for-Growth Solution

N-Drip has deployed its gravity-powered micro-irrigation solution worldwide,

converting flood-irrigated fields into water-efficient ones.

N-Drip's innovative approach delivers:

Up to 50% Water Savings

Reduce agricultural water withdrawals and replenish local water supplies

Energy Efficiency

Cut groundwater pumping costs by up to 70%, lowering operational expenses

Improved Yields

Enhance crop production

Environmental & Social Benefits

Restore ecosystems and support rural communities

Water Efficiency

Can save up to 50% of the water used for irrigation, often equaling as much as 2 AF (650,000 gallons) per acre.

Energy Savings

Can save up to 70% of the energy required for groundwater pumping.

Carbon Credit

By reducing groundwater pumping and improving fertilizer use efficiency through fertigation, farmers reduce their carbon emissions in their agricultural operation. Projects on average have shown a carbon emission reduction of 0.55 ton/acre of CO2 equivalent. When used to convert rice paddies to gravity-powered drip irrigation, methane produced by microorganisms is reduced by 78 to 95%.

Water Storage

In addition to the water saved from evaporative loss caused by flood irrigation, N-Drip reduces the amount of water diverted to fields by 40-60%. Additionally, because N-Drip leads to better soil structure due to less disturbance from flooding, the soil has more storage capacity.

Flood Control

By providing just the right amount of water that the plants need, N-Drip reduces the amount of water building up in the groundwater system - building more resilience to flooding, especially in areas that face severe storms and rain events.

Soil Health

N-Drip reduces erosion and minimizes nutrient loss by not overloading fields with water, leading to runoff. N-Drip reduces fertilizer use by 25% on average. Other practices such as cover cropping or no-till/strip tilling often are encouraged with drip irrigation. As these practices encourage carbon sequestration and also reduce tractor emissions, they can be a source of soil carbon credits.

Water Quality Credit

The use of flood irrigation leads to significant nutrient runoff and fertilizer leaching - contaminating both groundwater and surface water resources. Converting to N-Drip leads to runoff and leaching to be nearly zero. N-Drip is able to provide a water quality credit from operations that do not contribute to the degradation of resources.

Rural Economy

N-Drip often leads to an increase in yield and a reduction in farm inputs, including fertilizer and labor, providing the farmers with more profit. This benefits the farmer and the community.

Social Welfare

The global farming industry is highly fragmented, with most labor done by individual farm owners. Few farms employ outside workers, and the adoption of agriculture connectivity solutions should free significant time, which they can use to farm additional land for pay, or for education, relaxation, or otherwise.

Circular Economy

N-Drip tape is shallow buried and thus may remain in the soil in-between seasons, enabling reuse for several years over multiple crop rotations.

What Farmers Say About N-Drip

We started using N-Drip on some fields where we have deep irrigation wells. Pumping charge was getting over 200 dollars an acre. It started being cost-prohibitive and N-Drip has saved us about 50 percent.

Greg H.

Nebraska, USA

Three years ago, we had onions. That was when we were still on flood irrigation and we used 4.9 feet of water. Last year with N-Drip, we had artichokes and onions and over the whole crop season, we used 1.99 feet of water. So, that was a huge, huge reduction. We got good support from N-Drip. They’re out here doing whatever needs to be done.”

Madison M.

Arizona, USA

With N-Drip, you can control where and how much water is applied to your field. Flood irrigation, however, has the disadvantage of requiring twice the amount of water to push it across the field. This means you're starting with a 50% inefficiency that cannot be overcome, but with N-Drip, you can overcome that.”

Mark S.

Arizona, USA

For years, we’ve been looking for ways to grow more with less water because that’s our constraint – and we found it. The N-Drip field went 11 bales to the hectare compared to the flood which was 7.5. It was a remarkable result. The difference between 7.5 bales and 11 meant the system more than paid for itself in a year.

Howard R.

Queensland, Australia

Based on last year’s experiment on my land, I have increased my use of N-Drip technology. We saved water and achieved a crop yield averaging 13-14 tons per acre – a huge improvement compared to flood.

Jatinder S.

Punjab, India

I can’t say enough good things about the N-Drip people. They were wonderful. From the sales staff, the communication with the people, there was a lady that helped with the rural development grant, the crew that came from Arizona, they are just great. I still consider them friends. Even today, I will still communicate with all the people.

Mark A.

Nebraska, USA

The N-Drip Connect sensor system has been working really great. I’m able to follow along on my phone with the [N-Drip] app and you can see when the crop is needing moisture, how much it’s needing. As soon as you start the irrigation system up, you can tell immediately when the water has reached each individual sensor and it shows you on the graph that it is irrigating, how much it did apply—so you are able to keep up with the schedule.

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