NEXUS WATERNexus Verified Water Standard · Draft v0.1
A proposed open standard for water benefits.
Seven public draft pages: the master standard, principles, claims policy and four methodologies. Unpublished policies, including additionality, double counting and the reference library, are marked publication pending inside the drafts.
Master standard
How a proposed water outcome is measured, deducted, reviewed and recorded.
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Principles
Operating tests for a proposed water benefit, and what happens when one fails.
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Claims policy
Which statements a record may support, and which default claims are blocked.
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SAVE-001
Measured conservation at buildings, against a metered baseline.
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REUSE-001
Treated water put to beneficial use in place of a conventional source.
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REPLENISH-001
Site-specific, additional water returned to a stressed catchment.
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AWG-001
Atmospheric water generation that displaces another source.
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