WATER SUPPLY OF TERRITORIES AND COMMUNITIES AS A PRIORITY INTERACTION BETWEEN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT

Abstract

The article substantiates approaches to the organization of effective interaction between public administration and local self-government bodies during the implementation of anti-crisis measures to ensure water supply to the population of the Dnipropetrovsk region in peacetime and the legal regime of martial law. In addition to the direct damage to centralized water supply facilities as a result of rocket attacks, the reason for their failure is power outages. An effective solution to support the operation of pumping stations was the use of generators where it is technologically possible and expedient. To ensure the operation of an alternative source of current, fuel reserves were created. After the events of June 6, 2023, when the Russian occupying forces blew up the dam, the Kakhovsky reservoir dried, and as a result, Nikopolsky and part of Kryvorizka district were left without a centralized water supply. Public administration bodies at the local level were able to prevent a complete shortage of drinking water by organizing the processes of drilling artesian wells, setting up filling points from cisterns, and creating stocks of bottled water. In cooperation with the American-Ukrainian fund "RAZOM", it is planned to install 20 water purification stations from wells. The second step was the implementation of a multi-million experimental project – the construction of a new main water pipeline with a length of 145 km. At the same time, public administration, local self-government, as well as enterprises of private and communal forms of ownership united to achieve the goal. So, the solution by public administration bodies of today's problems related to the provision of drinking water to territories and communities during the war, in particular taking into account foreign experience and the best practices of public administration in this area, becomes more effective in conditions when the government works in a consolidated, open manner and transparent. Military public administrations created during the war simultaneously perform the functions of military and public administrations, and local self-government exercise the powers granted to them by the Constitution of Ukraine, within the framework of the Law of Ukraine «On the Legal Regime of Martial Law». The optimal model for reforming the domestic water supply industry in peacetime should be the criteria for self-sufficiency and self-financing of enterprises in the water supply and sewerage complex with minimal public administration intervention, but this will become possible only in the post-war period.