'Extremely unpleasant experience' — Why Kyiv faces growing risk of sewage crisis this winter

The Kyiv Independent · 19.10.2026, 13:13:55

As regular Russian strikes on energy facilities leave parts of Kyiv without running water, fears are mounting that further power outages could spark a serious humanitarian and public health crisis in a city whose water and sewage system depends entirely on electricity. Kyiv’s water system is one of the city’s biggest power consumers, requiring huge amounts of electricity to draw water from the Dnipro river and pump around 700 million liters of clean water daily to households and businesses. It