The Ukrainian Drinking Water Association was registered on the 12th
of March 2009 in
Kyiv.
Under its Charter, the Ukrainian Drinking Water Association is a
non-governmental non-profit organization established to represent its members’
interests.
The Association was founded by Ukraine’s powerful centralized
water supply and water management enterprises, a number of research
and specialized construction enterprises, equipment and materials
manufacturers, and other organizations that have their activities
in this area.
The Ukrainian Drinking Water Association collaborates with central and
regional executive power bodies, local self-government bodies, research
institutions, sectoral associations and non-governmental public organizations.
The Association’s particular tasks are to:
- promote introduction of the European standards and guidelines to the
water supply and water management area including efforts to be made by Ukraine
to meet the requirements of the Protocol on Water and Health;
- cooperate with the authorities and other stakeholders for providing
Ukraine’s population with quality drinking water by having centralized water
supply facilities streamlined, introducing aggregate and local intensified
water treatment systems where water is directly consumed, in the first turn, to
the regions with critical environmental impacts as well as to
curative/preventive, school and pre-school institutions and food factories;
- develop proposals on legal regulation of the water supply and
distribution market to supply high-quality drinking water to the population;
- collaborate with health care agencies in developing standards, norms
and regulations for drinking water quality;
- collaborate with the authorities and other stakeholders in designing
standards, norms and regulations for reliable and safe operation of water
supply/distribution facilities and for environmental protection;
- advocate interests of the Association’s members at the state
authorities and other organizations both in Ukraine and abroad;
- facilitate conditions to be created for the Association’s members to
get access to foreign markets;
- provide technical information to and training of the Association’s
members;
- help spread recognized best practices in the water supply and water
management area including protection of the water bodies that are used as
drinking water sources;
- organization of
the specialized seminars, conferences and exhibitions.
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