Pump suppliers and technicians on our network work in all nine provinces, from garden boreholes and tank boosters in the Gauteng suburbs and wellpoints in the sandy ground of Durban and the Cape Flats, to irrigation in the Lowveld and the Boland, mine dewatering on the Highveld coalfields and the platinum belt, and solar pumps on Karoo, Free State and Northern Cape farms. Choose your province or town to read about water and pumping there and request quotes.
Gauteng
Gauteng sits on a ridge far from any big river, so most of its tap water is pumped up from the Vaal system, and many suburbs have had water cuts and low pressure when that supply or the local network falters. That is why gardens in Pretoria East, Fourways and Benoni have boreholes and so many homes keep a plastic tank with a booster pump. Ground matters here: dolomite under parts of Centurion, the West Rand and Ekurhuleni calls for careful siting, and Johannesburg and Tshwane have their own borehole rules. Summer storms bring lightning that kills control boxes and floods basements in Sandton and the Joburg CBD. Pump shops, rewinders and drillers cluster in Kya Sand, Wadeville, Rosslyn and Silverton.
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Mpumalanga
Two very different pumping markets share this province. On the Highveld around eMalahleni, Middelburg and Secunda, coal mines and big plants need dewatering pumps, slurry pumps and three phase sets that run day and night, and mine water management is a constant job. Drop down the escarpment and the Lowveld is all irrigation: citrus, macadamias, bananas and vegetables along the Crocodile and Sabie rivers, fed from rivers, dams and boreholes. Granite sits close to the surface around Mbombela and White River, so boreholes are drilled into fractured hard rock. Lodges and estates near the Kruger gates rely on boreholes and small sewage pump stations, and summer storms hit both halves hard.
North West
The platinum belt runs from Brits through Rustenburg, and its shafts, concentrators and tailings dams keep a whole industry of slurry, dewatering and process pumps at work. Around Brits and Hartbeespoort, smallholdings and vegetable farms take water from boreholes and from canals below the dam. Further west, the maize country around Lichtenburg, Delareyville and Mahikeng leans on groundwater, much of it from dolomite aquifers that feed springs and town supplies, while cattle farms towards Vryburg still have windmills being swapped for solar pumps. Klerksdorp and Orkney sit on old gold mines with their own water to manage. Summers bring heavy storms; winters are dry, and borehole levels can drop late in the season.
Limpopo
Hot, dry for much of the year and spread over huge distances, Limpopo depends on boreholes more than most provinces. Polokwane and many villages draw a large share of their water from groundwater, and towns have had supply interruptions in long dry spells. Around Tzaneen and Letsitele, avocados, mangoes, citrus and nuts are irrigated from the Letaba catchment and from boreholes, while game farms in the Waterberg, near Hoedspruit and along the Limpopo valley pump water to troughs and pans with solar sets. Mining adds its own demand: platinum near Mokopane, coal at Lephalale and copper and phosphate at Phalaborwa all need dewatering and slurry pumps. Summer heat pushes motors hard, and storms bring lightning.
Northern Cape
This is the driest and emptiest province, and on most of its farms the only water is underground. Sheep and cattle farms across the Karoo and the Kalahari have long relied on windmills, and many are now changing to solar pumps that fill reservoirs by day. Some towns, De Aar among them, depend heavily on boreholes. Along the Orange River at Upington, Kakamas and Keimoes, vineyards for table grapes and raisins pump straight from the river and canals. Around Kathu, Postmasburg and Hotazel, iron ore and manganese mines dewater pits and move slurry, and Kimberley still carries its diamond heritage. Groundwater in places is brackish or high in salts, and distances between workshops are vast.
Free State
Maize, sunflower, wheat and cattle cover most of the Free State, and almost every farm has a borehole somewhere, many still with a windmill turning over a stock dam. Farmers are steadily replacing those windmills with solar pumps and adding centre pivots fed by boreholes and rivers along the Vaal, the Vet and the Modder. In the south, the Orange and Riet rivers supply irrigation schemes around Jacobsdal. Welkom and Virginia sit on the goldfields, where mines have long pumped water from underground, and Sasolburg has a large petrochemical industry. Bloemfontein has faced water cuts in many suburbs, pushing homes towards tanks and boreholes. Winters bring hard frost, which splits exposed pipes and pumps.
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal has more rain than most of the country, and its pumping problems are often about too much water rather than too little. The floods of April 2022 left basements, yards and pump stations in and around Durban under water, and summer downpours still fill sumps fast. Along the coast, sandy ground around Durban, Richards Bay and the North and South Coast means construction sites rely on wellpoints and dewatering pumps, and many coastal estates run sewage pump stations. Inland, sugar cane, Midlands dairy and timber farms pump from rivers, dams and boreholes, and Newcastle has heavy industry. Yet water cuts in parts of eThekwini have also driven homes towards tanks and boosters.
Eastern Cape
Few provinces have felt water stress as sharply. The long drought that drained the dams supplying Nelson Mandela Bay pushed thousands of Gqeberha households to drill boreholes and fit tanks, and Makhanda is known for long water outages. In the Karoo around Graaff-Reinet, Cradock and Somerset East, sheep farms depend on boreholes and windmills, now often changed to solar. The Sundays River Valley around Kirkwood grows citrus on canal and borehole water. Kariega, the Coega zone and East London have car plants and factories that use process and drainage pumps. On the coast, sandy ground near Jeffreys Bay and Port Alfred calls for wellpoints, and the old Transkei relies on springs and boreholes.
Western Cape
The drought that brought Cape Town close to Day Zero in 2018 changed how the city thinks about water. Thousands of homes sank wellpoints into the sandy Cape Flats aquifer or drilled boreholes into the rock below the southern and northern suburbs, and the City asks for them to be registered. Wellpoint water in some areas carries iron that stains walls and clogs pumps. Rain falls mostly in winter, filling basements near the Foreshore and flooding the Cape Flats, while the dry summer is when the Winelands, Breede River valley and Swartland pump hardest for vineyards and orchards. Along the Garden Route, George and Knysna face their own dry spells, and estates use sewage pump stations.