Vienna and GLOBAL 2000 Secure Drinking Water Supply in Ukraine

PeopleOther ♦ Published: July 25, 2025; 16:21 ♦ (Vindobona)

The City of Vienna and the environmental protection organization GLOBAL 2000 are intensifying their long-standing cooperation to secure the drinking water supply in Ukraine. With the installation of nine additional water treatment plants in the Kharkiv region, thousands of people now have access to clean drinking water.

GLOBAL 2000 and the City of Vienna are enabling nine additional water treatment plants for the Kharkiv region. / Picture: © Stadt Wien/Martin Votava

Alexandra Strickner, managing director of GLOBAL 2000, emphasized on Thursday that Ukrainian water has been “sustainably poisoned” for years. Even before the current war, water quality in eastern Ukraine had suffered massively from the consequences of mining, the coal industry, and the Chernobyl disaster. Since the start of the war, the regular supply of clean drinking water has…