Ukraine enhances cooperation with Denmark in the sector of water resources and the environment

The Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine has signed a working plan with the Danish Environmental Protection Agency in the direction of “Water and the Environment.”

This is an important strategic document covering a four-year period (2025-2028).

The main areas of cooperation are as follows:

• water resources/groundwater;
• water supply and wastewater treatment. Denmark is willing to share its experience and assist in the development of effective strategies and the introduction of innovative solutions and technologies;
• pollution control. Denmark expresses readiness to provide support in the implementation of a number of initiatives to create effective mechanisms for monitoring and controlling industrial and agricultural pollutants.

Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine, Iryna Ovcharenko, noted that this document is an important tool for achieving strategic goals in the water management sector and creates a basis for deeper cooperation with Denmark.

"Cooperation with the Danish Environmental Protection Agency is important for comprehensive reform and transformation of the drinking water, drinking water supply, and wastewater sectors, as it takes into account the strategic directions of the state. These are aimed at harmonizing national legislation with EU requirements in the areas of water resource management, drinking water, wastewater treatment, and environmental protection, improving energy efficiency, introducing modern, economically sound models for the use of surface and groundwater, as well as developing innovative solutions and strengthening institutional capacity," Iryna Ovcharenko emphasized.

The Deputy Minister added that an important aspect of cooperation is ensuring synergy in the implementation of tasks between the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture, the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development, the NEURC, the State Agency of Water Resources, the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources, and the Ukrvodokanalecology Association.

Such coordination will enable a balanced approach to tariff policy formation, water resource management, and the introduction of European standards in the field of drinking water supply and wastewater disposal.