Water & Rainwater

Water Management & Abstraction

Every licence, every meter reading, every restriction, in one place.

Water is moving from an assumed input to a constrained and licensed one. This module holds every abstraction licence and its conditions, tracks actual abstraction against annual and daily limits, monitors restriction notices and hands-off flow conditions, and produces the returns each regulator requires — before a breach becomes an enforcement matter.

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12 capabilities
3 linked schemes
Flagship module
Offline capable

12: Capabilities in this module
5: Interactive tools
3: Linked support schemes
5: Data integrations
5: Measures reported

The ground reality

What is actually happening in water Management in the UK

Abstraction licensing is administered separately in each nation, with licence conditions covering annual and daily volumes, seasonal restrictions and hands-off flow conditions that can suspend abstraction with little notice. Farms increasingly hold multiple licences across several points of abstraction, and reconciling meter readings against licence conditions is routinely done retrospectively rather than continuously.

Figures are as published at the time of writing. Farm policy and payment rates change frequently — verify against the primary source before relying on any number here.

Capabilities

What Water Management does

Every capability below is built on the same underlying record, so entering something once is enough for it to appear wherever it is needed.

Record and plan

Abstraction licence register with all conditions, volumes and points of abstraction
Meter reading capture with automated and manual entry
Real-time position against annual and daily authorised volumes

Operate and monitor

Hands-off flow and restriction notice monitoring with alerting
Regulatory abstraction return preparation and submission record
Water source mapping — surface, groundwater, mains and harvested

Comply and evidence

Water use accounting by enterprise, field and purpose
Trickle irrigation and de minimis exemption tracking
Licence variation, transfer and renewal workflow

Analyse and improve

Drought plan with tiered response triggers
Water efficiency benchmarking per tonne or per litre of output
Farm water audit with leak and loss identification

Interactive

Tools you actually use, not screens you read

These are working interfaces inside the module — maps, calculators, planners and dashboards that respond to your own holding data.

Licence position gauge showing volume used against authorised volume with days remaining

Gauge

Water balance dashboard by source and by use

Dashboard

Restriction alert map showing catchment status

Map

Drought response planner with trigger thresholds and actions

Builder

Water efficiency benchmark against comparable holdings

Tool

End to end

How Water Management runs, start to finish

The module is modelled as a state machine, so at any point the business knows exactly which stage every record is at and what has to happen next.

1

Register every licence and its conditions

This is where the record starts, and getting it right here removes work at every later stage.
2

Map sources and metering points

The platform prompts only for what this stage genuinely needs, and carries everything forward.
3

Capture readings continuously

Conflicts with scheme rules, regulatory windows and existing commitments are flagged here rather than discovered later.
4

Track position against limits

Capture works offline, so this stage is completed in the field rather than remembered afterwards.
5

Monitor restrictions and hands-off flows

Everything recorded at this point becomes evidence automatically, in every format that will later ask for it.
6

Adjust use or invoke the drought plan

This is the stage most businesses currently do twice, once for the operation and once for the paperwork.
7

Submit regulatory returns

Results feed the whole-farm view, so the effect of this stage is visible against the rest of the business.
8

Review efficiency and plan investment

The cycle closes here, and what is learned is carried into next season's plan rather than lost.

Who uses it

Built around four real jobs, not one generic user

Each of these people needs something different from the same record. The module is designed so none of them has to work around the others.

Irrigated vegetable grower

Multiple abstraction licences

Needs the licence position visible daily during the abstraction season.

Dairy farmer

High parlour and stock water use

Needs to find losses before they show on the bill.

Estate manager

Multiple holdings and licences

Needs a portfolio view of licence headroom.

Environment regulator

Compliance

Needs accurate, timely returns rather than annual estimates.

Schemes and funding

Support schemes this module works with

Agrivencia holds these schemes as data, so eligibility, payment rates, caps and windows update the day they change rather than at the next software release.

England

Water Management Grant

Fund on-farm water storage and efficient irrigation to secure water supply and reduce abstraction pressure.

Round-based. Defra / Rural Payments Agency England

Farming Transformation Fund

Fund larger capital projects that transform farm productivity, water management or value addition.

Round-based by theme. Defra / Rural Payments Agency England

Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026

Pay farmers for environmental actions taken alongside food production, as the principal replacement for area-based direct payments in England.

Two windows in 2026: window one from 30 June, window two from September. Defra / Rural Payments Agency

Rates, caps and windows change frequently and sometimes without notice. Always confirm against the current published scheme rules before applying.

Measurement

How you will know it is working

The module reports against these measures from the day it is switched on, so the value is demonstrable rather than assumed.

01Percentage of licensed volume used
02Returns submitted on time
03Restriction days experienced
04Water use per unit of output
05Losses identified and fixed

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Abstraction Licence Position

Where you are against your authorised volume, and how many days of headroom remain at current use.

How this is calculated

Headroom is authorised volume minus volume used. Days of headroom is headroom divided by current daily use. The sustainable rate is headroom divided by days remaining in the licence year.

Hands-off flow conditions and restriction notices can suspend abstraction regardless of remaining headroom.

— Volume remaining m³

— Days of headroom at current use days

— Position

— Sustainable daily rate to year end m³/day

Questions answered

What people ask about Water Management

Does this replace the software I already use?

Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.

Will it work where I have no signal?

Yes. Field capture in Water Management is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.

What happens when the scheme rules change?

Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.

Who owns the data I put in?

You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.

Does it work if I farm across a border?

Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.

Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?

Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.

What is the biggest limitation of this module?

Licence breach through late reconciliation. Mitigated by continuous position tracking. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.

Because everything shares one record, adding a neighbouring module usually costs less work than it saves.

Irrigation, Reservoirs & Scheduling Apply what the crop needs, when the licence allows, from water you stored. Rainwater Harvesting & Farm Water Supply Every roof on the farm is a catchment you already own. Drainage, Flood Risk & Natural Flood Management Get water off the field, and slow it down before it reaches the village. Water Quality & Nutrient Neutrality A regulatory obligation on one side, a tradable credit on the other.

See Water Management running on your own holding

Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.

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