Umvoto has assisted national, provincial, district and local governments to, quantify, develop and manage their groundwater resources since its founding. Some of the services Umvoto has offered on flagship projects include:
- Water Management Area scale groundwater reserve determinations
- Municipal groundwater resource development
- National and Provincial water resource planning and reconciliation
- Rural water supply
- Resource Quality Objective (RQO) determinations
- Flood risk assessments
- Guidelines and reviews resource management policy
Some of the notable projects Umvoto has completed or consulted on include:
- All Towns water resources reconciliation study
- Assessment of water availability in the Berg Catchment
- City of Cape Town – New Water Programme
- Determination of Resource Quality Objectives for the Olifants-Doorn Water Management Area
- Eden District Municipality Flood Risk Assessment
- Eritrea Groundwater Assessment, Aquifer Mapping and Well Development
- Groundwater Reserve Determination – Mzimvubu to Keiskamma Water Management Area
- Groundwater Resource Direct Measures (GRDM) Methodology Review
- Klein Karoo Rural Water Supply Scheme – Groundwater Resource Development (Oudtshoorn and Calitzdorp)
- Olifants River Water Supply Scheme – Malamani Dolomite Groundwater Resource Development
- Overstrand Local Municipality Groundwater Resource Development and Management (Hermanus, Stanford, Gansbaai and Baardskeerdersbos)
Contact us today for your groundwater solution!
Umvoto IN the Government Sector
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Umvoto presents at Overstrand Environmental Conference
Conference This past week Umvoto attended the first Overstrand Environmental Conference. Various individuals and organisations were invited by the conference organisers to present on the environmental dynamics of the Overstrand area. Dylan Blake, Umvoto’s Principal Geologist, presented on the hydrogeology of the greater Hermanus area, where Umvoto has been developing the groundwater supply system for…
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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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When do you need to apply for a water use licence or registration?
What is the National Water Act? The intensifying drought conditions experienced over recent years, coupled with future climate change impacts, has put pressure on various industries to focus more intensely on groundwater abstraction. To ensure the sustainable utilisation and correct management of South Africa’s groundwater resources, this needs to include regularisation of this abstraction. It…
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Update on the City of Cape Town’s New Water Programme
Umvoto Africa continued as the principal hydrogeological consultants for the groundwater components of the City of Cape Town‘s New Water Programme (CCT NWP) under engineering consultants Zutari and iX engineers, which was implemented to diversify bulk water supply and improve long-term water security and resilience of the City. The CCT NWP groundwater projects target the…
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Umvoto WIN Wells Drilling Project of the Year Award 2021
Drilling to Augment Urban Water Supply – A Case Study of the Cape Flats and Table Mountain Group Aquifers Umvoto Africa (Pty) Ltd (Umvoto) has 30 years’ experience in the groundwater industry and has undertaken numerous groundwater development projects across all aquifer types throughout South Africa and Africa, including fractured rock aquifers (TMGA), basement aquifers (Malmesbury Group, Cape Granite Suite), primary aquifers (Cape Flats…
