On 11 June 2018, the Iberesparragal farm in Southern Spain received the gold certificate of the Alliance for Stewardship for the implementation of the Water Stewardship standard. Good Stuff International guided and supported the entire AWS standard implementation in the farm as part of a project carried out for the Alliance for Water Stewardship.

Photo: Reservoir in Andalusia, Spain

As it was the first (gold) certificate that AWS issued for an agricultural producer in Europe, the implementation has attracted a lot of interest from people that want to implement the AWS standard in an agricultural context. Many people have asked us questions about the practical approach that we took, the solutions that we generated and the lessons we learned.

En junio de 2018, la finca Iberesparragal, en el sur de España, recibió la certificación nivel Oro de la Alliance for Stewardship por la implementación del estándar AWS. Good Stuff International guió y apoyó el proceso completo de implementación como parte de la cvolaboración con la Alliance for Water Stewardship.

Photo: Reservoir in Andalusia, Spain

Como primer certificado (de oro) emitido por AWS para un productor agrícola en Europa, esta implementación ha atraído mucho interés desde empresas que desean implementar el estándar de AWS en un contexto agrícola. Muchas personas nos han preguntado sobre el enfoque práctico que tomamos, las soluciones que generamos y las lecciones que aprendimos..

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In June 2018, the citrus farm Iberesparragal, in Spain, achieved the first gold certification under the AWS standard in Europe and one of the first ones in the agricultural sector worldwide.

As a component of GSI's project with the Alliance for Water Stewardship, we supported the whole implementation process at Iberesparragal by applying the WaterData4Action approach. The result is a practical case study from which different achievements and learnings can be extracted.