In terms of water supply for Ukraine is now one of the last places in Europe, while eating the most water. Consequently, water use and pollution is several times more intense than in other countries. Persistent rejection of drinking water from the hygienic standards of sanitary and chemical parameters recorded in Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad. Nikolayev, Odessa, Sumy and Kherson, bacteriological - in Ternopil, Luhansk and Transcarpathian regions. A pressing problem is water supply in rural areas. Number of non-standard water samples from decentralized water supply systems in sanitary-chemical and bacteriological parameters, respectively, to 2,3 and 4,8 times was higher compared to the number of non-standard drinking water samples from the centralized systems.
