Hydrological Assessment and Water Related Services
Water Footprint Assessment
MitKat Advisory’s Water Footprint Assessment helps organizations quantify, analyze, and manage direct and indirect water use across operations and supply chains. We map blue, green, and grey water components to reveal where water is consumed, where quality is affected, and where exposure to scarcity or regulatory pressure is material. Our team consolidates metering data, process information, supplier inputs, and local hydrological context to produce a credible baseline that stands up to internal audit and external disclosure. The significance lies in turning water usage from a hidden cost into a managed performance lever.
Clients gain clarity on cost drivers, operational risks, and reputational hotspots while identifying opportunities for process efficiency, reuse, recycling, and substitution. We convert findings into a prioritized action plan with technical options, indicative costs, projected savings, and cobenefits such as energy reduction and resilience. The output supports procurement criteria, target setting, and alignment with corporate sustainability frameworks. The result is measurable reduction in water intensity, stronger compliance, and improved continuity of operations in water stressed locations. By embedding water metrics into governance and capital planning, you can make confident, datadriven decisions that protect both business performance and shared water resources.
Watershed and River Basin Hydrological Modeling
We deliver watershed and river basin models that show how water moves, accumulates, and interacts with land use, infrastructure, and climate variability across scales. Using hydrological and hydraulic simulations, we quantify runoff generation, channel flows, flood peaks, baseflow, and storage dynamics under current and future scenarios. The significance for clients is foresight.
Decisions on reservoirs, intakes, industrial withdrawals, irrigation schemes, urban expansion, or ecological flows are evaluated against scientifically grounded basin behaviour rather than assumptions. Our approach combines data from rainfall, soils, terrain, land cover, and abstractions to reveal where interventions will have the highest benefit and the lowest unintended impact. We translate complex model outputs into decisionready maps, performance curves, and design criteria that support planning approvals, investment appraisals, and stakeholder engagement. MitKat Advisory also frames naturebased solutions and structural options side by side, with sensitivity analyses that capture seasonal extremes and longterm climate signals. The value is better risk management, optimized water allocation, reduced flood and drought losses, and improved environmental compliance. By aligning projects with basin realities, organizations secure more resilient water access, protect communities and ecosystems, and derisk timelines and budgets.
Integrated Surface and Groundwater Resource Assessment
Our integrated assessments link surface water dynamics with groundwater behavior to provide a complete picture of available resources, recharge, storage, and quality. We evaluate aquifer properties, recharge zones, connectivity with rivers and wetlands, and the effects of pumping on levels and flows. Coupled with surface hydrology, the analysis identifies sustainable yields, seasonal constraints, and critical thresholds that influence abstraction licenses and operational planning.
The significance is integration. Many water risks arise at the interface of surface and subsurface systems, where fragmented studies miss cumulative effects. MitKat Advisory brings hydrogeology, hydrology, and water quality together to quantify safe operating space for municipalities, industry, and agriculture. Clients receive actionable products including water balance sheets, wellfield optimization plans, managed aquifer recharge options, and protection zones with monitoring protocols. We also screen treatment needs and reuse opportunities that can defer capex while improving reliability. The value is confident allocation decisions, stronger compliance with permits, lower energy per kiloliter, and improved resilience to drought and contamination events. By aligning withdrawals with natural replenishment and infrastructure capacity, organizations protect longterm water security and stakeholder trust.
Water Security and Demand Management and Risk Advisory
MitKat Advisory supports clients in securing reliable, affordable, and responsible water supplies through a combined lens of demand management, supply diversification, and risk governance. We begin with a diagnostic of current demand by process and site, then assess supply portfolio risks across source reliability, quality variability, infrastructure constraints, regulatory exposure, and climate stress.
The significance is strategic alignment. Water is treated as a boardlevel risk that affects production, compliance, and reputation. We develop demand reduction programs covering loss control, metering, behavioral change, process optimization, reuse, and fitforpurpose quality. In parallel, we evaluate alternative sources such as reclaimed water, stormwater harvesting, interconnections, and storage, with financial and risk metrics for each option. Advisory outputs include a phased security plan with triggers, decision gates, procurement strategies, and contingency playbooks that align with capital cycles and operational realities. The value to clients is lower total cost of water, reduced exposure to curtailments and penalties, and improved credibility with regulators and communities. With clear KPIs, governance roles, and monitoring dashboards, water performance becomes predictable and resilient, supporting growth while safeguarding shared resources.