Waste Water Management in Ukraine. Market background and important facts
Total amount of necessary investments in the water industry of Ukraine has been estimated by international financial institutions at 7 billion USD.
The Association agreement between EU and Ukraine provides:
- the phased adoption of the European environmental legislation in Ukraine
- providing the central water supply and sewerage services in all towns with a population of more than 2000 people (while only 48% of households are connected to the central sewerage in Ukraine)
- introduction of tertiary sewage treatment from nitrogen and phosphorus compounds, which currently has been realized by 3% only in Ukraine.
Ukraine needs to:
- reconstruct 35% of outdated water supply and sewerage networks
- replace 40% of water supply and canalization equipment
- reconstruct 25% of existing water treatment facilities
- install new water purification facilities for 85% of industrial enterprises.
Sources: State Statistics Committee of Ukraine, the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), Larive International.
Legislation reforms, decentralization, the growth of municipal budgets and the support of international financial institutions have launched large-scale projects of drainage and sewage treatment systems’ reconstruction in Lviv, Kiev, Lutsk.
The exhibition and the business program of the event will be attended by:
- leading suppliers of equipment and integrated solutions for the treatment of sewage
- industrial enterprises
- water utilities (vodokanals)
- financial institutions
- municipal and state authorities
- construction and engineering companies
- scientific and educational institutions.