Visit the NRCS website for more information on the WaterSMART Initiative and to read the Western Water and Working Lands Framework for Conservation Action.

A meat processor uses S.sensing technology to increase lost product recovery by more than 30% resulting in an annual savings of $400,000.

Food safety company works to save enough water for 10 million people.

Just 3 percent of the world’s water is fresh water, and two-thirds of that water is currently inaccessible, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Meat-processing facilities are major users of large amounts of water. Plants may use hundreds of thousands of gallons of water per day to process meat adequately. 

For protein processors, carcass washing on the harvest floor is one of the plant’s biggest offenders when it comes to water usage.