Our services to the agricultural sector include:
- Groundwater assessments and exploration
- Geophysical surveys
- Borehole siting
- Borehole drilling
- Borehole yield testing
- Water quality analysis
- Legislative requirements (water use licence applications)
- Groundwater management, monitoring and modelling
- GIS and remote sensing solutions (NDVI, MSI and terrain analysis)
- Land and soil classification
Our services have helped farmers develop, manage, and licence their water needs for fruit, nuts, and vegetables; tobacco and grain; poultry; viticulture; game and livestock.
Some of our clients include:
Contact us today for your groundwater solution!
Umvoto in the Agricultural Sector
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World Soil Day: The significance of sustainable soil management
The United Nations’ World Soil Day is held annually on the 5th of December and emphasises the importance of sustainable soil management. World Soil Day 2022 and its campaign “Soils: Where food begins” aims to focus attention on the importance of maintaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being by addressing the growing challenges in soil management, increasing soil…
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Groundwater Resource Development: Myths and Misconceptions
Groundwater myths Climate extremes across the globe have shined a spotlight on groundwater and its potential for building resilience to the effects of climate change. However, development and sustainable use of this unseen resource remains clouded in myth and misconception.In South Africa, all of its residents have a constitutional right to basic water supply and…
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Groundwater Databases in South Africa
Data for Groundwater Management Groundwater systems are dynamic due to differing properties of the aquifer, short and long-term variations in abstraction, climate, and land use. Existing below surface, groundwater is an invisible resource. This makes it challenging when trying to quantify the impacts of anthropogenic, hydrogeological and environmental stresses on groundwater systems. Monitoring data and…
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How to drill a borehole
When There’s a Borehole, There’s a Way – Drilling for Groundwater Do you require an alternative water supply? Do you want to go off-grid and tap out of the municipal supply? Do you wish to never rely on burst bulk water pipelines? Then we have a solution for you! Installing a borehole is a relatively…
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Groundwater Resource Assessment and Monitoring
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…
