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Danish - Ukranian Environmental Co-operation 1993-2002 Address by the State Commitee of Housing and Muncipal EconomyTen years have passed since the beginning of the transition of Ukraine to market economy. There have been great changes on issues of ownership, management, construction, infrastructure development, payment for services and others. The water supply and sewerage sector remains one of a few sub-sectors of economy, which preserved its potential and provides sufficiently with vital and important services. More than 260 specific communal enterprises with about 72 thousand employees provide for prime necessities of the population and create the basic conditions for operation of the infrastructure of the inhabited areas. Ukraine has reached high level of ensuring population with centralized water supply and sewerage service. The central water supply system is secured in all the cities of Ukraine and 84% of villages. Sewerage system is provided for 427 cities (95%) and 515 (57%) of villages. Nevertheless, a large amount of problems aroused in this area, mainly in the form of insufficient technical status of the water supply and sewerage systems, low payment ability of the population, decreased level of construction, low level of automation and technological process control. The essential element in solving the aforementioned problems is co-operation with international financial institutions, governmental environmental protection agencies and private companies. In this respect, the assistance of the Danish Government is appreciable and very effective. The Danish Ministry of Environment provided technical assistance to the water-sewerage enterprises in Zakarpatya, Yalta, Sevastopol and others cities of Ukraine, carried out studies on the "Rehabilitation of water supply and sewerage system in the Crimea and Sevastopol", supplied technologies and equipment for the reconstruction of the deep-laying Ø=1500 mm pressure-gravity collector along the "40 Years of October Avenue" in the city of Kyiv, implemented the Conceptual Study for the institutional reform of the State Communal Enterprise "Kyivvodokanal" and many other. Within the framework of the Program on co-operation between the Danish Ministry of Environment and the State Committee of Housing and Municipal Economy, Danish Consultants developed a document on the "National Strategy for the Water Sector and Action Plan", materials of which are included into the National Program on Housing-Municipal Sector Reforming and Developing.
The State Committee on Housing and Municipal Economy highly appreciates the endeavors of the Danish Environmental Protection Agency aiming at the improvement of the quality of our communal services, rational use of water resources, and inculcation of energy saving measures. A new field of future co-operation is being considered by developing and jointly implementing Climate Change prevention projects according to the Kyo-to Protocol. We express our gratitude to the Government of the Kingdom of Denmark for its understanding of our problems in that for us difficult time and for the considerable help it provides to the solution of these problems. With hope for further fruitful co-operation,
Head of the Committee
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