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 […]
Husiatyn Vodokanal-Service – Baruther Wasserbetrieb WABAU
The project The town of Husiatyn is located in western Ukraine in the Ternopil oblast and has a population of around 7,000. As a result of the escalation of the Russian war of aggression, many internally displaced persons from the war zone settled in Husiatyn. Their total number amounts to around 15 % of the […]
Khersonvodokanal – Bonn-Netz GmbH
The project Kherson is located at the beginning of the delta of the Dnipro River in south-east Ukraine. It is around 30 kilometres from the Black Sea. Before the escalation of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the city had a population of just under 300,000 people. At the end […]
Kremenchukvodokanal – Gelsenwasser AG
The project Kremenchuk is a commercial and industrial city in the south of the Poltava oblast in central Ukraine with a population of around 240,000. It is located around 300 kilometres south-east of Kyiv on both sides of the Dnipro River. In 2022, there were several missile attacks on the city following the escalation of […]
Irpinvodokanal – Zweckverband Wasser/Abwasser Bornaer Land
The project The background to the project is the cooperation between the town of Irpin and the town of Borna, which has existed since 2016. Both cities have been cooperating for years, for example in the area of volunteer fire brigades. There is also an existing cooperation between Bergisch Gladbach and the city of Bucha, […]
Zhytomyrvodokanal – Emschergenossenschaft / Lippeverband
The project The background of the project is the establishment of a solidarity partnership between the Zhytomyrvodokanal and the Emschergenossenschaft / Lippeverband. Due to the current war situation in Ukraine, the focus is on the procurement of necessary technical equipment. In particular, the energy and water supply is repeatedly interrupted in many Ukrainian cities. The […]
Hamburg Wasser – Kyivvodokanal
The project Since February 2022, the people of Ukraine have suffered from the escalation of Russia’s war of aggression. Ukraine’s infrastructure has suffered significant damage, including that necessary to ensure basic subsistence. Ukrainians are forced to stay in unheated shelters and in some cases have no access to running drinking water. These events are not […]
OOWV – Chernihivvodokanal – Miskvodokanal
The project War, destruction and an uncertain future – what most OOWV employees only know from stories told by their parents or grandparents has been a bitter reality in Ukraine for more than year. Large-scale attacks on the country’s critical infrastructure threaten the supply of energy and water to the population as well as the […]
Stadtentwässerung Dresden – Lvivvodokanal – Ternopilvodokanal – Nadvirnavodokanal
Know-how transfer between West and East German-Ukrainian utility partnership values dialogue between experts. How can Ukrainian water utilities optimise their services? And how can their German partners support them in this? The German-Ukrainian utility partnership is using the answers to these questions as a basis for drawing up an ambitious work plan. This will cover […]
