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2.3 Water

Section 2: Natural Resources

Notifications

Follow the Rule: NOP regulation 205.200 requires that production practices maintain or improve natural resources of the operation, including water quality. Some of the choices apply to a specific category: crop, handler, or livestock. Choose the ones that apply to your operation.

Guidance and Additional Regulations

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Resources and Links

Latest Updates

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Worksheet Questions

Source of water:

  • Irrigation canal or ditch

  • Municipal

  • On-site well

  • Lake, Pond, Reservoir

  • Rainwater catchment

  • River/Stream

  • Other


Other sources of water


If you use non-municipal water as an ingredient or to wash crops, please provide a water test from within the last 3 years.


Does the operation use on-site water treatments?

Water Treatments

If water treatment materials used by the operation, add them to the Materials Use List.

Check ways water is used in crop/livestock production and/or handling. If other, describe below.

  • Cleaning equipment

  • Cleaning facilities

  • Cleaning products

  • Cleaning transport

  • Cooking

  • Cooling

  • Culinary steam

  • Heating

  • Irrigation

  • Ingredient

  • Processing aid

  • Product transport

  • Natural behaviors/outdoor access

  • Water for livestock

  • Foliar Sprays

  • Fertigation

  • Other

Other water use


Check ways you conserve water

  • monitor water use

  • water conservation areas identified

  • employees trained in conservation practices

  • repair leaks

  • replace or retrofit fixtures

  • low flow faucet aerators

  • motion sensor faucets

  • pre-rinse spray valves

  • pressurized waterbroom

  • connectionless steamers

  • low volume toilets

  • water efficient ice machines

  • cooling tower conductivity controllers

  • water efficient landscape

  • other

Other water conservation practices

List other water conservation practices

Describe how you protect riparian areas

  • feed livestock outside riparian areas

  • fence without impacting wildlife

  • prevent erosion

  • prevent overgrazing of livestock

  • other

Other practices used to protect riparian areas

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