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WRCWaterActive · v1.0

Water Restoration Certificates

Well-established corporate water-balancing certificates that translate restoration projects into volumetric estimates.

Registry
BEF
Sector
Water restoration
Credit
WRC · m³
Issued as
org.hypercerts.claim.activity

The issued hypercert is a batch of WRC credits recorded at once, comparable to a registry issuance batch. It carries weighted contributors, a work scope and a rights record, so any app in the ATProto Collective Funding Ecosystem can read it natively.

ScopesWaterVolumetricUS-West
Aligns toWRI VWBA 2.0
Plain-language version →Methodology document ↗BEF registry ↗

Overview

Water Restoration Certificates are a voluntary, market based instrument from the Bonneville Environmental Foundation that fund projects to restore water to dewatered rivers, streams, wetlands, and groundwater, mainly in North America. Projects give farmers, ranchers, and other water users an economic incentive to change water management so that water is left in or returned to critical freshwater ecosystems, and each project is verified by a third party. One Water Restoration Certificate represents 1,000 gallons of water restored to a freshwater ecosystem.

Sources: methodology document · Bonneville Environmental Foundation

01 · Roles

Standard Registry

role · registry

Owns the policy, approves participants, anchors each issuance to its evidence.

Project Proponent

role · proponent

Registers the project and submits monitoring reports.

Validation & Verification Body

role · vvb

Independently validates the design and verifies monitored data.

02 · Policy graph

10 nodes

The workflow as an explicit directed graph. In Graph each column is one role, so you can see who acts at each step; every node names the org.broadlistening.policy.block.* def it resolves to plus its input and output record. Data flow switches to a lineage view that makes explicit what data each node needs and makes, with dependency arcs tracing every record back to the node that produced it. Hover to trace, click to inspect; revise edges (dashed) send work back.

Hover to trace · click to inspect

Standard Registry
Project Proponent
Validation & Verification Body
Issue hypercert

Issue water credits

Standard Registry

A hypercert batching the water credits issued for the period, anchored to the bundle.

Lexicon
org.broadlistening.policy.block.issue
Input
org.hypercerts.collection + the computed total
Output
org.hypercerts.claim.activity

Node kinds in this graph

  • Role selectorg.broadlistening.policy.block.roleSelect
  • Request documentorg.broadlistening.policy.block.requestDocument
  • Revieworg.broadlistening.policy.block.review
  • Persistorg.broadlistening.policy.block.persist
  • Computeorg.broadlistening.policy.block.compute
  • Aggregateorg.broadlistening.policy.block.aggregate
  • Issue hypercertorg.broadlistening.policy.block.issue
  • Provenanceorg.broadlistening.policy.block.provenance

control-flow event

revise (sends back)

03 · Generated lexicon records

The records this methodology compiles to, ready to write to a PDS. The first tabs are the new policy engine records; the ★ claim.activity tab and those after it are reused ATProto Collective Funding Ecosystem records (org.hypercerts.*): the issued hypercert batch, its rights, an example verification attachment and a retirement receipt.

org.broadlistening.policy.methodology/bef-wrc

{
  "$type": "org.broadlistening.policy.methodology",
  "code": "WRC",
  "name": "Water Restoration Certificates",
  "registry": "Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)",
  "sector": "Water restoration",
  "creditType": "water",
  "status": "active",
  "version": "1.0",
  "scopes": [
    "Water",
    "Volumetric",
    "US-West"
  ],
  "aligns": [
    "WRI VWBA 2.0"
  ],
  "roles": [
    {
      "id": "registry",
      "name": "Standard Registry",
      "permission": "Owns the policy, approves participants, anchors each issuance to its evidence."
    },
    {
      "id": "proponent",
      "name": "Project Proponent",
      "permission": "Registers the project and submits monitoring reports."
    },
    {
      "id": "vvb",
      "name": "Validation & Verification Body",
      "permission": "Independently validates the design and verifies monitored data."
    }
  ],
  "schemas": [
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/bef-wrc-water-intervention",
    "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.schema/bef-wrc-water-monitoring"
  ],
  "graph": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.broadlistening.policy.graph/bef-wrc",
  "issuesAs": "org.hypercerts.claim.activity",
  "workScope": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.workscope.cel/bef-wrc-scope",
  "rights": "at://did:plc:bl0adl1sten1ngp0l1cyreg/org.hypercerts.claim.rights/bef-wrc-rights",
  "createdAt": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

04 · Schemas

Water Intervention

schema · water-intervention

The catchment, activity and baseline for a water benefit.

FieldTypeReqDescription
catchmentstring✓Catchment / watershed identifier.
activitystring✓Replenishment, efficiency or quality activity.
methodstring✓Accounting method, e.g. WRI VWBA 2.0.
baselineM3number✓Baseline annual water balance (m³).

Water Benefit Measurement

schema · water-monitoring

Measured volumetric (or quality) water benefit for a period.

FieldTypeReqDescription
projectref✓strongRef to the registered intervention.
periodstring✓Measurement period (ISO-8601 interval).
benefitM3number✓Net volumetric water benefit (m³).
qualityParamstring·Optional quality parameter (e.g. kg N, kg P) for quality benefits.
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