New water treatment plants for Mykolaiv are to be launched in January 2016 — the state provided funds for construction

Construction of new water treatment facilities for Mykolaiv, photo: city council

New water treatment facilities for centralised water supply in Mykolaiv are expected to be launched in January 2026. They were built at the expense of funds saved during the construction of a new water supply system.

The head of the State Agency for Reconstruction, Serhii Sukhomlyn, and the CEO of the contractor «Motorway», Dmytro Troiekurov, told journalists about this during a conversation with journalists, a correspondent of NikVesti reports.

As you know, the construction of new water treatment plants for Mykolaiv was planned to be financed by loans from the European Investment Bank, with the rest to be provided by the Danish government as grant support. This project would have taken several years to implement and was supposed to help provide the city with water of European standards.

This idea has now been abandoned, the head of the State Agency for Reconstruction explained. It was decided to build a new water treatment plant at public expense — the money saved during the construction of a new water supply system for the city.

«Mykolaiv has been part of the EIB project for about 7 or 8 years now to build a sewage treatment plant for the city. We have met with the Danes and the European Investment Bank many times. This is a really cool project, but today the city of Mykolaiv simply cannot physically guarantee this loan due to the limited budget.

And then it was decided, including through savings from this project, to build a sewage treatment plant for the city of Mykolaiv. What we are going to see today (the new water treatment plant for Mykolaiv) is that the contractor is expected to launch the first stage by January. This means that the water quality will improve significantly starting from January,» said Sukhomlyn.

Head of the State Agency for Reconstruction Serhii Sukhomlyn, 8 December 2025, photo by NikVesti

Dmytro Troiekurov, CEO of «Avtostrada», added that the water treatment plant will be fully operational in March 2026.

«We plan to launch the first stage of water treatment by the end of the year. And at the end of the first quarter (2026), we plan to fully adjust the system to operate on reagents, as it should be provided for. That is, at the end of the first quarter, we will have a full launch of the treatment plant,» he said.

CEO of the contracting company «Avtostrada» Dmytro Troiekurov, 8 December 2025, photo NikVesti

After that, says Serhii Sukhomlyn, head of the State Agency for Reconstruction, Mykolaiv residents will receive drinking water in their taps.

«It will be a fully functional treatment plant for Mykolaiv. And here the water will be absolutely potable after these treatment plants,» said Sukhomlyn.

However, he added, the city can still take out an EIB loan if it wishes and spend the money, for example, on additional equipment.

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«The issue is that Mykolaiv, together with the European Investment Bank, also wants to make a project for the sewage treatment plant. And this could be additional equipment, an additional construction unit. There are no problems here.

But today, the sewage treatment plants that are currently being built for Mykolaiv, once commissioned at the end of the first quarter, will be enough to provide the city with quality water. This equipment is already designed for water from Inhulets, it can treat salt water and everything else,» explained Serhii Sukhomlyn.

The new water supply system for Mykolaiv was launched in October 2025.

Water supply for Mykolaiv. A little history

It has been more than three years since Russian troops damaged the water supply line that supplied Mykolaiv with water. Since then, the city of almost half a million people has been without a centralised supply of quality water.

All this time, Mykolaiv residents have been receiving water from a backup source, which raises many questions about the quality of this water and the salt content in its composition. The salt water damaged 1,200 kilometres of the city's water supply network. Borys Dudenko, director of «Mykolaivvodokanal», said that it is impossible to replace the entire length of the network that was damaged by the salt water supply.

For a long time, representatives of state and local authorities have been looking for ways to restore drinking water supply in Mykolaiv. The final solution was found in 2024: a new water supply line would be laid from Nova Odesa, and the money was allocated from the state budget.

The regional recovery service even selected contractors who will work according to the principle of «design-build». They are three companies, each of which is responsible for one of the three work areas: «Ukrtransmist», «Rostdorstroi» and «Avtostrada». However, later both the client and the construction contractor were changed. The customer for the new water pipeline was the Service for Infrastructure Restoration and Development in Dnipropetrovsk region, and the contractor was the group of companies «Avtostrada».