The access of producers of mineral and mountain water to glass bottles for bottling water has become much more difficult due to the shortage of glass containers throughout Europe, it was caused by the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine and the subsequent reduction in its production in both countries.
In this situation, AT Market LLC (Kyiv), which is engaged in bottling high-mountain Carpathian water under the Voda UA brand, plans to start producing water in Tetrapak packaging next month, the owner and founder of the company, Dmitry Nikiforov, told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.
“Now all the factories are standing, so many of our and some European manufacturers have stopped producing water in “glass”, and are limited only to plastic. We, for our part, understand that all our manufacturers will run out of bottles in the foreseeable future, and in early August we will offer the market an alternative to glass is Tetrapak eco-packaging with a volume of 0.33 liters,” Nikiforov said.
He recalled that the situation with the availability of glass containers for producers of mineral and high mountain waters remains difficult throughout Europe, because a significant part of the bottles were produced in Ukraine and Russia.
Earlier, Nikiforov said in an interview with the agency that AT Market can produce glass containers for bottling water under the Voda UA trademark only at the Vetropack plant in Gostomel (Kyiv region), since the necessary presses remained at the plant that was under Russian occupation for some time -forms. In May, the head of the company noted that the batch of bottles produced before the war on the order of AT Market was not damaged, and it could be picked up within a month.
“Unfortunately, the plant will not be launched in Gostomel. We bought the remaining bottles that survived, and that’s all for now,” Nikiforov stated.
At the same time, he stressed that the AT Market water bottling plant, located in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, is now working in two shifts.
Voda UA is a group of companies engaged in the extraction of Carpathian high-mountain waters under the trademarks Voda UA, “Goryanka”, “Karpatskaya dzherelna vysokogirna”.
DRINKING WATER, HORECA, MINERAL WATER, TETRAPAK, VODA UA, НИКИФОРОВ
Millions of Ukrainians in more than ten cities are deprived of access to drinking water due to the aggression of the Russian military, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Liudmyla Denisova has said.
“Due to the actions of the Russian occupiers, the right of millions of Ukrainians to access to drinking water is being violated. The war partially or completely deprived residents of Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Okhtyrka, Izium, Makariv, Polohy, Vasylivka, Orikhiv, Huliaipole, Chernihiv, Trostianets and many other settlements,” the ombudsman said on Telegram channel on Thursday.
According to Denisova, 200,000 people in Donetsk region alone do not have access to drinking water.
“With the increase in the scale of the clashes, there is a threat that in the coming weeks the Donetsk region may be completely disconnected from the water supply,” her message said.
The Verkhovna Rada has ratified an agreement between the governments of Ukraine and France regarding the official support of a project on supply of drinking water to the city of Mariupol (Donetsk region). An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that a total of 258 lawmakers backed the agreement. According to the Framework Agreement, the French side provides Ukraine with a loan in an amount not exceeding EUR 64 million for the project on supply of drinking water to Mariupol.
The agreement also provides for the development of a master plan for improving the water supply and drainage system of Mariupol until 2040.
According to an explanatory note to the bill on ratification, the project will include the construction and launch of modern filtering stations in Mariupol, as well as the modernization of the existing centralized water supply pipelines and drainage system to reduce the consumption of drinking water and discharge of sewage into the environment.
Kyiv has enough liquid chlorine for disinfection of drinking water and Ukraine is considering options to replace this solution, Director General of OJSC Kyivvodokanal Dmytro Novytsky has said. “Today Kyiv has enough liquid chlorine which Kyivvodokanal uses for disinfection of drinking water,” the press service of Kyivvodokanal quoted Novytsky as saying. The company also said that Ukraine is considering various alternative methods of drinking water disinfection in order to replace liquid chlorine. Several options are being studied to replace it with modern safe solutions, including low concentration sodium hypochlorite, mixed oxidizing agents or chlorine dioxide.
As reported, in the middle of June, Dniproazot, which is a producer of liquid chlorine used by water services companies to disinfect drinking water, warned that it was stopping supplies and stopping the production of liquid chlorine. A complicated situation arose at Ukraine’s enterprises involved in the disinfection of drinking water. Some enterprises have chlorine reserves from a week to 20 days.
In turn, Kyivvodokanal warned that problems with drinking water disinfection could occur due to the cessation of supplies and production of liquid chlorine by Dniproazot.
DISINFECTION, DRINKING WATER, KYIVVODOKANAL, LIQUID CHLORINE
