PROJECTS
In March 2025, Umvoto was commissioned by the Southern African Development Community Groundwater Management Institute (SADC-GMI) to undertake a project on determining the dependency and vulnerability of groundwater in coastal cities, using Cape Town and Dar es Salaam as case studies. Coastal cities are becoming increasingly reliant on groundwater due to rapid urbanisation, population growth,…
The “Refinement of Strategic Groundwater Source Areas (SWSA-gw) in South Africa” project builds upon the foundational studies conducted by the Water Research Commission (WRC) in 2013 and 2018, which established the importance of strategic water source areas for the nation’s water security (see Figure 1). Umvoto, appointed as the Professional Service Provider (PSP), aims to…
In February 2022, Umvoto was commissioned by the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Chief Directorate: Water Ecosystems Management (CD: WEM) to conduct a High Confidence Groundwater Reserve Determination Study for the Berg Catchment. The study aimed to address the impacts associated with the increasing number of Water Use Licence Applications (WULAs) and the potential influences…
Since 2020 Umvoto has been involved the action research Restoring the Waterways in the Philippi Horticultural Area project, led by Stellenbosch University Water Institute. This exciting action research project combines two-parts: collaborative water governance and physical clearance and restoration of part of the waterway network within the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA). The first part, centred…
The Biovac Institute Umvoto was commissioned by HI Calibre Engineering (Pty) Ltd on behalf of The Biologicals and Vaccines Institute of South Africa (Pty) Ltd (Biovac) to undertake a groundwater assessment (including a desktop study, field study and borehole siting) of the Biovac site in Ndabeni, Cape Town. Biovac currently uses municipal water for various…
Kenrock Country Estate Monitoring Following the completion of the 2018 groundwater assessment of Kenrock Country Estate, Umvoto was appointed Kenrock Homeowners’ Association to undertake a review of the estate’s Operational Environmental Management Programme (OEMP). This review was undertaken to determine whether the estate currently operates in an environmentally sustainable manner and to provide monitoring recommendations…
Umvoto is in the process of supplying an automatic weather station and air quality sensors to Corbetti Geothermal PLC. The clean geothermal energy power project is being built in the Corbetti Caldera area of Oromia, which is in the Great Rift Valley some 250 km southwest of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Baseline monitoring of the pre-construction environment is…
Umvoto was appointed by Southern Oil (Pty) Ltd (SOILL) to delineate the 1:100 year floodline on their Moorreesburg property, where their current operations occur and where planned future plant upgrades are to take place. The main objective of the assessment was to determine if the proposed SOILL site development would be impacted by flooding of…
Monitoring Borehole Drilling and Water Quality Sampling Umvoto was commissioned by a corrosion protection specialist to undertake the drilling of two monitoring boreholes into the Cape Flats Aquifer (CFA), and baseline hydrochemical analysis of CFA groundwater from these two boreholes, at a new facility in Bellville, Cape Town. Once operations at the facility begin Umvoto…
In 2021 Umvoto was appointed by WEC Consulting Engineers on behalf of Oudtshoorn Local Municipality to drill an exploration borehole for the Calitzdorp Rural Groundwater Augmentation project, with the aim of augmenting the Klein Karoo Rural Water Supply Scheme with groundwater from the TMG in vicinity of the greater Calitzdorp area. The drilling and testing…
