Every litre saved is energy avoided. We measure both, or we don't claim it.
Wherever water is scarce, it is never just water: desalination and groundwater pumping are energy-intensive, carbon-intensive processes. That's why our impact page reads more like a methodology than a marketing claim.
A litre of irrigation water carries an energy cost before it ever reaches a plant.
Desalinated water requires substantial energy to produce, and water-scarce countries lean on it more every year; farm groundwater is pumped from increasing depths as aquifers deplete and salinity climbs. Both draw on carbon-intensive grids. That means a litre of water saved through better irrigation is, indirectly, an emissions reduction. The two figures move together, not separately, which is why water-security planning increasingly treats demand reduction as an energy measure as much as a water one.
How the Savings Ledger states a number.
The Savings Ledger (see AI Intelligence) is built so every figure it ever shows carries these fields, already running on the bench pod's own metered data. Here is the structure, ready to fill in as each pilot site adds its baseline.
44% water reduction: a published benchmark, not our own claim.
The only savings figure on this site is 44% water reduction, the published benchmark for this device class from MIT GEAR Lab's AI-driven solar drip controller research. It is cited as a benchmark for what closed-loop, AI-assisted drip irrigation has achieved elsewhere, not as a result IrrigAims has measured. Our own pilots will publish our own measured figure once baselines and results exist.
Water reduction for this device class, from MIT GEAR Lab's AI-driven solar drip controller research. Our pilots will publish our own measured figure once baselines and results exist.
Where this maps to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
SDG 6
Clean water and sanitation: reducing waste in irrigation, the largest single draw on regional freshwater.
SDG 2
Zero hunger: need-based fertigation supports more resilient agriculture in water-stressed conditions.
SDG 13
Climate action: litres saved in a desalination- and pumping-dependent region translate to avoided emissions.
No fabricated impact figures. Ever.
Every number we publish about our own performance will carry a measurement period, a baseline, a formula and a source, published only once it's measured.