The secretary
The assessment spreadsheet lives on one laptop and only one person knows how it works. Assessment season turns into weeks of manual reconciliation, and shareholder records sit in a filing cabinet where no one else can find them.
Water district & ditch administration software
Water orders, ditchrider runs, and assessments — in one app built for ditch companies.
Water district and ditch administration software built for irrigation districts and mutual ditch companies. An offline-first mobile app for ditch riders in the field and a share-based ledger for the office, so every order, delivery, and assessment lives in one system instead of a spreadsheet and a stack of paper run sheets.
The problem
Three people, one tangle of spreadsheets and paper.
Most ditch companies run on a spreadsheet only one person fully understands, run sheets that ride along on a clipboard, and shareholder records in a filing cabinet. Here is where that breaks down.
The ditchrider
Paper run sheets get wet, smudged, or lost. There is no signal at the headgate, so updates get called in by phone hours later — if they get called in at all. The office is always a step behind what happened in the field.
The shareholder
No clear way to know when water is coming, no record of past orders to point to in a dispute, and a paper bill once a year with no detail behind it. Every question becomes a phone call to the secretary.
Product tour
What it looks like in use.
Five screens covering the jobs a ditch company does every week — ordering water, running the ditch, billing assessments, tracking shares, and reading state gauge data without leaving the app.
Mapping
A map of your district, included.
Headgates, turnouts, ditches — drawn the way you see them. Patrons drop pins, admins draw the network. No Google or ArcGIS fees.
Drop a pin
Patrons mark a spot on the map. A meeting place, a problem, a parcel. Staff see it instantly.
Draw your network
Admins place headgates and turnouts and draw laterals right on the map. Satellite, terrain, dark — pick the view.
Works offline
Once the map loads, the tiles stay on the phone. Open it on Wi-Fi, use it out in the field.
Newer features
Built for the hard parts of a dry year.
Three capabilities most districts can't get anywhere else — for setting a fair cap when water is short, seeing where water is running, and comparing delivery efficiency without exposing anyone.
Drought curtailment
Set a cap, publish it as a dated decision, and see every patron sorted ok, near-limit, or over — with a CSV for the board.
Delivery benchmarks
Acre-feet per acre by irrigation method, anonymized so a method only shows when at least three patrons use it.
Hydraulic schematic
Your network drawn as a tree, with each turnout lighting up when water is running through it. Read-only in the field.
How Loamio compares
Loamio next to the alternatives.
A capability-level comparison against the tools ditch companies most often weigh. Each competitor claim is sourced from the vendor's own public site, checked in June 2026; see the source notes in the page markup.
| Capability | Loamio | Watervize | WaterMaster | CVSS Storm | Spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public pricing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
| Offline-first mobile for ditchriders | ✓ | partial | ✓ iOS + Android, syncs when back on signal | ✗ desktop | ✗ |
| Web app (no install) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | |
| Share-based water rights ledger | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✓ | manual |
| Built-in assessment billing | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✓ | manual |
| Stripe-integrated patron billing | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| State agency data integration (e.g. CDSS) | ✓ | ✗ | unclear | ✗ | ✗ |
| Modern cloud architecture (AWS) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ Windows/MS SQL |
Sourced from vendor public sites (June 2026): Watervize (watervize.com), WaterMaster (mywatermaster.com), CVSS Storm (cvss.com). See the per-product breakdowns linked below.
Other comparisons: Loamio vs. WaterMaster · Loamio vs. Watervize · Loamio vs. CVSS Storm · Loamio vs. spreadsheets