The construction of the new water main to Mykolaiv is promised to be completed by August 2025

The construction of the new water main to Mykolaiv is planned to be completed by August 2025.

This was announced by the head of the State Agency for Reconstruction and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Serhii Sukhomlyn, during a meeting with the ambassadors of the G7 countries and the representative of the EU.

At the meeting, Sukhomlyn outlined three key areas of his work — energy security, development of social infrastructure, as well as critical infrastructure, including the construction of a new water pipeline in the Mykolaiv region.

«We plan that its construction will be completed in August next year. Mykolaiv sewage treatment plants remain a problem, so I am taking this opportunity to appeal to our French partners, with whom we have an agreement for 200 million euros, to provide modular sewage treatment systems. In parallel with this, work on reorganization of the work of the Agency will be carried out. His work should become more transparent,» said Serhii Sukhomlyn.

Waterworks for Mykolaiv

In May, Mayor Sienkevych expressed hope that the dismissal of Oleksandr Kubrakov from the post of Minister of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure will not affect plans to build a new water main for the city.

Mustafa Naiiem was also dismissed in June. However, Naiiem himself later responded to the Ministry of Finance's accusation that the Agency did not provide a water supply project in the Mykolayiv region, noting that at the time of his dismissal, the terms of reference for the procurement procedure were already being prepared.

During the briefing on July 11, answering the question NikVesti, Vitalii Kim said that Mykolaiv has not yet received funds from the government for the construction of a new water supply, because the amount has changed there. He planned to present the updated estimate of the project for consideration by the government.

Earlier, the head of Mykolaiv RMA Vitalii Kim told journalists that thanks to the optimization of the estimate, about 3 billion hryvnias are needed for the construction of the water pipeline. Although earlier it was about the amount from 4 to 8 billion hryvnias.

In August, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commissioned the construction of a new water main to provide Mykolaiv with drinking water «on the fast track» — drinking water should be available by the summer of 2025. The government has already approved the corresponding program.

It is worth noting that in two years the government did not allocate funds for the construction of a new water supply system to provide Mykolaiv with quality water. As evidenced by the amendments to Cabinet Resolution №566, approved on April 29, 2024, they write NikVesti. At the same time, in 2023, the government allocated 8.2 billion hryvnias for the construction of new water mains in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and 5.1 billion hryvnias this year.

During the conference in Berlin, the first vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniienko, answering the question NikVesti, stated that the lack of drinking water in Mykolaiv is one of the biggest problems in Ukraine, which the state must solve in the near future.

David Arakhamiia, head of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction, believes that the funds for the construction of a new water main for Mykolaiv should be allocated from the reserve fund of the state budget.