19th ReH₂O Mobile Water Treatment Plant

19th ReH₂O Mobile Water Treatment Plant Goes Live in Ukraine’s Donetsk Region, Bringing Safe Drinking Water Back to Frontline Communities

On November 7, in the government-controlled area of Ukraine’s Donetsk region, the 19th ReH₂O Mobile Water Treatment Plant was launched in the Oleksandrivka community, 31 miles from Kramatorsk. Heavy shelling in 2024-2025 left the northern part of the region without reliable access to drinking water, while Kramatorsk remains under regular attack.

Working with the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, Oleksandrivka was selected as a safer location that can serve surrounding towns and villages. With more than 14,000 residents and hundreds of internally displaced families from Kramatorsk and nearby areas, the community has become a key logistics hub for people living close to the frontline.

Thanks to funding from the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Ukraine Aid International, and Mission 823, the new ReH₂O unit will provide free, clean drinking water for up to 30,000 people every day. For many families here, access to safe water is not about comfort, it is about basic safety and dignity.

The ReH₂O Initiative, led by Ukrainian nonprofit Rebuild Our Ukraine (REUA), is now a core part of nationwide efforts to restore water in frontline regions. With early support from the American nonprofit Renew Democracy Initiative, and under the Don’t Wait. Hydrate. campaign, four more Mobile Water Treatment Plants will soon come online in cities where safe drinking water is a matter of survival.

We are not stopping, so DONT’T WAIT. HYDRAT