Irrigated crop rows at golden hour
Inline water optimization for agriculture

Unlock the full potential
of your water.

Vorterra is a passive, plug-and-play inline unit that conditions irrigation water as it flows — so it wets deeper, spreads wider and carries nutrient further from the same emitters. Growers run it to hold yield while turning water and fertigation down.

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+20.5%Yield, best treatment · U of Arizona trial
25–30%Water & fertigation reduction targeted
0Moving parts · no chemicals
<1 hrTypical installation
What it is

One spool in the line.
Nothing else changes.

A Vorterra unit is a flanged spool — Schedule 80 PVC or steel — that replaces a straight run of pressurized pipe. Inside is a fixed internal geometry: no motor, no impeller, no dosing, no filter to change. Your pump, filters, manifold, laterals, emitters and scheduling all stay exactly as built.

140 PSI max operating 500–4,400 GPM 4″–12″ flanged 25–225 acres per unit
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01 · SPIN

Axial flow becomes a tight vortex

Fixed helical geometry converts straight flow into a fast centripetal spiral — the water moves, the unit doesn't.

02 · DROP

Pressure falls at the core

Rotation pulls static pressure down along the axis until vapour cavities form — ordinary fluid dynamics in an unusual geometry.

03 · COLLAPSE

Recovery does the work

Downstream of the throat the cavities collapse, and the water leaves the far flange behaving differently in your soil.

A Vorterra unit bolted flange-to-flange into a field supply line over a coastal strawberry planting, berries ripening in the foreground
In the field

This is the whole system.

One flanged spool on the supply line of a working coastal strawberry planting — no power, no controls, nothing to operate. See where Vorterra is running →

See it go in

It installs like a spool piece,
because that's what it is.

Mark Lopez, President of the Orange County Farm Bureau, walks through how easy the unit is to install — and the results he has seen on his own ground so far.

Flanged both ends — on a line with an existing flanged spool or a straight run you can take out, it goes in with gaskets and bolts. No glue joints to cure, no re-plumbing of the manifold.

Backed by data · University of Arizona

Independently evaluated.
In writing.

"Vorterra increased iceberg lettuce yield, improved irrigation conservation, and maintained performance under reduced nitrogen input… increased yield by 6.8% to 20.5% across corresponding treatments."
University of Arizona evaluation report — Conclusions Yuma Agricultural Center · 97-day controlled trial · May 2026
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First page of the University of Arizona evaluation report on the Vorterra unit
16-page evaluationK3 Field · Yuma, Arizona
Measured, not promised

Results from trial plots
and production ground.

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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · YUMA
+20.5%

Yield under full irrigation

Controlled 8-treatment factorial trial on iceberg lettuce. Water productivity improved +23.1%, and treated plots could skip a scheduled irrigation and still out-yield controls.

ORANGE COUNTY · STRAWBERRIES
3 seasons

Commercial production, reclaimed water

Three consecutive strawberry seasons on Vorterra with A.G. Kawamura, former California Secretary of Food & Agriculture — with 10–20% season-over-season yield gains reported.

UC ANR · SUMMER SQUASH
177,796 lbs

From an acre and a half

A 2026 demonstration block hosted with University of California Agriculture & Natural Resources — the harvest donated to Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County.

A.G. Kawamura inspecting green beans in the field during harvest
Commercial validation
A remarkable technology I intend to expand across my operations.
A.G. Kawamura Former California Secretary of Food & Agriculture · Former Chairman, Western Growers
Third-generation grower-shipper, Orange County Produce & Gem-Pack Berries
You're in good company

Running on production ground.
For years.

Vorterra isn't a prototype — it has been operating on major commercial ground for years — including some of the largest almond, pepper, fruit and strawberry operations in the United States, with two university-oversight evaluations in the record.

Explore who's running Vorterra →
Gem-Pack Berries
Prime Time International
The Ecology Center
Alfarm
Campos Brothers Farms · almonds Zirkle Fruit Company · Washington Prime Time International · peppers Etchandy Farms · 3 seasons Perricone Farms · citrus Alfarm Global · alfalfa Sovereignty Ranch · Kiss the Ground University of Arizona · Yuma
COMBINED CLIENT OPERATIONS
50,000+ ac

Under the operations running Vorterra (est.)

From Central Valley almonds to Northwest fruit — measured on their ground, kept on their ground.

UNIVERSITY OVERSIGHT
2 evaluations

Independent, instrumented, in writing

The University of Arizona's 2026 controlled trial — and a 2020 season-long Campos Brothers trial with findings verified by a UC Davis-trained hydrologic scientist: −35% water, +28% output.

GOOD-WILL PROJECTS
177,796 lbs

Grown for people who need it

The largest harvest ever recorded at Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County — from a single 1.5-acre block on Vorterra — plus school gardens and a veterans program.

Beyond the farm gate

Built for the era
of less water.

The Colorado River Basin is negotiating its post-2026 operating rules against reservoirs at historic lows. Demand-side efficiency — making every delivered acre-foot do more — is the one tool growers, districts and agencies all share. It's also the only thing this hardware does.

01
Conserved water you can meter

The Arizona trial's treated plots skipped a scheduled irrigation, confirmed by soil-moisture sensors — conservation as a measured event, not an estimate.

02
Less nitrogen, same yield

Yield held with nitrogen cut by roughly a quarter — a water-quality lever in the same piece of pipe.

03
Nothing new to permit

Passive hardware: no chemicals dosed, no power drawn, no discharge — it changes what water does, not what's in it.

Districts & agencies — talk to us The evidence
A.G. Kawamura and Mark Lopez with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins in a Vorterra-equipped strawberry field

Federal attention, on the ground. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins visiting the Vorterra-equipped Orange County strawberry operation, with A.G. Kawamura and Orange County Farm Bureau President Mark Lopez.

Documentary record of a field visit. The presence of a public official is not an endorsement of Vorterra or its products.

In the news

Milestones worth
reading about.

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Field resultsMay 2026

University of Arizona completes controlled evaluation

Yield up 6.8–20.5% across every treatment pair over a 97-day trial — water productivity up 23.1%.
TeamJul 2025

A.G. Kawamura joins as Senior Strategic Advisor

The former California Secretary of Agriculture joins — after three seasons running Vorterra on his own ground.
Field visit2026

Secretary of Agriculture Rollins visits a Vorterra-equipped farm

The Secretary walked the Orange County strawberry operation that has run Vorterra for three seasons.
Start with one block

Put it on your own ground —
then turn the water down.

Deployment starts with a verified first block — run at 25–30% less water and fertigation against a matched control, with the plant data to show it held. Units are leased — Vorterra retains service, and a 10-year warranty stands behind the hardware.

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