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What Makes Us Different

Bigger, faster, more affordable water solutions for farmers, cities and fish.

Powered by advanced analytics and innovative market solutions, and backed by four decades of on-the-ground experience, we are action-oriented problem solvers.

Leveraging the best tools available, we deliver practical solutions with speed and scale. Our mission is to unite stakeholders around smarter, faster, and more efficient "quantified" approaches that benefit all. When outdated systems create obstacles, we tackle them head-on to drive meaningful change.

How We Get There

As we scale our solutions nationwide, our efforts are driven by quantified conservation and a unified framework of functions that enable us to connect the essential components for addressing complex, multi-faceted challenges:

  • Analytics & project prioritization
  • Funder/buyer cultivation
  • Partner/stakeholder engagement
  • Project implementation
  • Strategic policy & finance efforts
  • Tracking, reporting & accountability

Quantified Conservation

Giving rivers the competitive advantage

Fixing rivers is about providing solutions to address the water quantity or water quality issues facing a watershed. Quantified conservation allows us to understand the outcomes of conservation actions before implementation to ensure we can deliver the most efficient solution with the highest benefits for the river. Knowing the outcomes lets us focus on what a river needs and determine how much it will cost to get there.

Operating with transparency

When you see a problem, you can solve it. Our team aggregates data and models to identify the highest-priority, lowest-cost conservation actions that meet a watershed's goals, whether that be water quality or water quantity targets. Using these recommendations, we coordinate with decision-makers and deploy rapid funding to get projects on the ground.

Conservation that’s different from the status quo

Quantified conservation goes beyond tree counts or short-term monitoring. To ensure our actions translate into measurable outcomes, we identify success indicators and use technology to track and collect data over time. We not only know how many trees and shrubs are thriving, but we also quantify solar load blocked, reduced erosion, and improved stream function.

Tracking data

We have invested in and developed patented technologies that utilize data model output, monitor progress, store findings, and manage projects in real time. We use these tools to monitor conservation sites over decades. By gathering data and photographs year after year, we can track every action we take, translating into a measurable outcome and win for freshwater ecosystems.

With an outcomes-focused mindset, quantified conservation changes the game. 

It allows people to invest in outcomes with definitive goals and established program completion dates. Our methods use funding better and ensure that every dollar that goes to ground delivers a measurable result. Partners who support our methodologies and hire us for our services are now better positioned to target restoration and conservation projects that deliver the greatest environmental benefits at the lowest possible cost.

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Explore Our Impact

Uplift Report

“Uplift” is the environmental benefit of a restoration action, and the annual Uplift Report summarizes the powerful outcomes and benefits of our projects. This report reflects our diligent monitoring efforts, new data systems, and strategic tools that allow us to continue proving the measurable “uplift” of our work.

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