Due to the war, many water supply systems have been destroyed, there are plans to monitor water resources - minister
Kyiv • UNN
There are problems with water resources in Ukraine, especially due to the war. To account for water, monitoring will be introduced according to European standards, the first pilot project is already being implemented in Zakarpattia.
Ukraine has problems with water resources, especially against the background of the war, when many water supply systems have been destroyed. Therefore, they want to monitor water resources according to European standards. This was announced by the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine, Svitlana Hrynchuk, on the air of the telethon on Saturday, writes UNN.
There are problems with water resources, with water supply in Ukraine. Especially during the war, during the full-scale invasion. We have destroyed a lot of water supply and water supply systems. We constantly have additional pollution due to military operations of water resources, mining
Therefore, according to her, the issues of monitoring and tracking the accounting of water resources remain extremely important for the Ministry of Environmental Protection.
We want to do this monitoring according to European standards. In Zakarpattia, we are already implementing the first pilot project, we will extend it to the whole of Ukraine. This is when we receive information in real time both on the quantity of water, the quality of water, and the chemical composition of water
The Minister noted that this allows to respond to problems in a timely manner, if they appear.
"The Zakarpattia region has problems with floods, but at the same time, due to climate change, even in this region, where it would seem that there should be no problems with water resources, we are already experiencing problems with access to clean and high-quality water resources in general, not to mention the regions of Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, and Kharkiv regions, which, after the destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir, are even more experiencing problems with access to water resources," said Hrynchuk.
