Verified Water x Home Base Spirits

For the past six months, Home Base has been working with Verified Water to directly support stewardship of a crucial California watershed that irrigates fields used to grow our whiskies’ grains. Now a portion of the sale of every Home Base whiskey is being used to purchase water credits in the Sacramento Valley:

“Transparency in the Home Base supply chain begins with the mentality that whiskey is, at its core, an agricultural product. Home Base intentionally supports and celebrates the regional agrarian economy in California. They visit each farm to ensure best practices and quality of product and highlight the source of the ingredients for each whiskey they produce.  Though Home Base knew that water was their biggest, and arguably most important input, traceability in its whiskey supply chain did not include water until recently.  “We've always prioritized sourcing from farms using ecological growing methods, and it wasn't until learning about Verified Water Action that we realized our business could support sustainable stewardship for this crucial resource as well,” Home Base co-founder, Samantha Blatteis, says.

California’s Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems are identified in the CEO Water Mandate’s 100 Priority Basins list as watersheds with, “the highest level of opportunity for collective action from an economic and shared water risk perspective”. Most of the Home Base agricultural and production inputs originate in these watersheds.  The World Resources Institute’s Aqueduct database identifies much of the California’s Central Valley as a high to extremely high water stress region. Mapping the company’s risk and identifying where they could make an impact led to a partnership with Verified Water.”

Read the full announcement here.