Factsheet of the Utility Platform
The Utlility Platform in brief: background, objectives, approach, including its special approch in the Ukraine.
Working meeting between the operators EcoService-2022 and BAV
Biowaste management in practice – learning and exchange in a German-Ukrainian utility partnership EcoService-2022 was founded in 2022 by four municipalities in the Poltava oblast as Ukraine’s first waste management association. The founding municipalities received significant support from the ‘Export Initiative Environmental Protection’, which is promoting the development of sustainable waste management in Ukraine on […]
German-Ukrainian municipal partnership conference in June 2025
From 16 to 19 June 2025, the seventh German-Ukrainian Municipal Partnership Conference took place in Münster under the motto “From solidarity to transformation: For Ukraine. For Europe.” took place. Around 650 representatives of municipalities, committed individuals and interested parties from the German-Ukrainian partnership network took part. The conference offered a wide range of opportunities for […]
Visit from Lviv, Ternopil, Nadvirna and Dresden to the StEB Cologne
As the utility partnership is being continued, Stadtentwässerungsbetriebe Köln (StEB Köln) invited representatives of Stadtentwässerung Dresden (SEDD) and the wastewater and water utilities Lvivvodokanal, Ternopil and Nadvirna to a working meeting from 13 to 15 May. In several workshops, the participants jointly developed the main objectives of the collaboration and built up a sustainable network […]
Wasserwirtschaft hilft Ukraine
Die Wasserversorger und Abwasserbetriebe in der Ukraine stehen vor immensen Herausforderungen, um die elementare Daseinsvorsorge für die Menschen vor Ort weiterhin aufrecht zu erhalten. Die gezielten Angriffe auf die Infrastruktur der Daseinsvorsorge werden für die Bevölkerung immer kritischer. der VKU und die GIZ sind im direkten Austausch mit dem ukrainischen Wasserverband „Ukrvodokanalecologiya“, der die Hilfsanfragen […]
Solidarity of North Rhine-Westphalian municipal utilities with Ukraine
The Ukraine conference under patronage of the federal government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) on 18th of November 2024 in Cologne gave participants the opportunity to learn about various facets of Ukraine’s reconstruction efforts, exchange ideas with other experts from their respective fields and establish contacts with potential partners. North Rhine-Westphalian municipal utilities are amongst the […]
Improving the wastewater infrastructure in the war zone
As part of the solidarity utility partnership between the Oldenburgisch-Ostfriesischer Wasserverband (OOWV) and drinking water and wastewater utilities in Sumy and Chernihiv (Ukraine), significant steps were taken in 2024 to improve the wastewater infrastructure in north-eastern Ukraine: a suction vehicle was procured and delivered to Ukraine, high-quality laboratory technology enables better and faster drinking water […]
Partnership cooperation on site in Husiatyn (Ukraine) shows success
The operator partnership between Husiatyn (Ukraine) and Baruth/Mark, which has been running for a year now, has already seen four joint work efforts on site in Husiatyn (Ukraine) as well as one job shadowing of Ukrainian colleagues to Baruth.The town of Husiatyn is located in western Ukraine, around 70 km south-east of Ternopil. Since the […]
Looking back at IFAT Munich 2024
Today three months ago the Utility Platform attended IFAT Munich: the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management. With almost 150,000 visitors from almost 170 countries and regions, it brings together the most important international industry representatives from politics, business and science and offers exciting ideas and innovative solutions for […]
Water knows no borders
Pumping stations hit by rockets, power cuts and collapsed telecommunications have been ongoing challenges for Ukrainian operators since the start of the war. Vasyl Lytvynyuk from the Nadvirnavodokanal water and wastewater company in the small town of Nadvirna in western Ukraine makes it clear: “Without the help of our German partners, we would not have […]
