Ground­wa­ter of the Kyiv region is an impor­tant nat­ur­al resource that ensures water sup­ply for the pop­u­la­tion and indus­tri­al enter­pris­es of the region. Locat­ed in the north­east­ern part of Ukraine, the Kyiv region has a well-devel­oped net­work of under­ground water flows and aquifer hori­zons.

From a hydro­ge­o­log­i­cal per­spec­tive, the Kyiv region lies with­in two major regions: the Dnipro–Donets arte­sian basin and the hydro­ge­o­log­i­cal province of the Ukrain­ian Shield. Due to dif­fer­ent geo­log­i­cal and hydro­ge­o­log­i­cal con­di­tions, the ter­ri­to­ry of the Kyiv region shows uneven ground­wa­ter avail­abil­i­ty.

The largest share of pre­dict­ed ground­wa­ter resources is con­cen­trat­ed in the north­ern and cen­tral parts of the region, with­in the Dnipro–Donets arte­sian basin, while the small­est share is found in the south, with­in the hydro­ge­o­log­i­cal province of the Ukrain­ian Shield.

Ground­wa­ter deposits of the Kyiv region are asso­ci­at­ed with aquifers in Quaternary–Neogene, Pale­o­gene, Cre­ta­ceous, Juras­sic sed­i­ments, as well as with the frac­tured zone of Pre­cam­bri­an crys­talline rocks.

The region is char­ac­ter­ized by a rel­a­tive­ly high lev­el of explo­ration of pre­dict­ed ground­wa­ter reserves—about 45%. The pre­dict­ed resources of drink­ing ground­wa­ter in the Kyiv region (includ­ing the city of Kyiv) amount to 4,215.300 thou­sand m³/day. In the Kyiv region (includ­ing Kyiv city), there are 55 deposits of drink­ing and tech­ni­cal ground­wa­ter, com­pris­ing 155 sites. Ground­wa­ter extrac­tion in 2019 in the Kyiv region reached 216.575 thou­sand m³/day.

For cen­tral­ized water sup­ply of the city of Kyiv, ground­wa­ter from Callov­ian, Ceno­man­ian, and Mid­dle Juras­sic deposits is used. How­ev­er, it should be not­ed that the share of ground­wa­ter in the city’s water sup­ply has sig­nif­i­cant­ly decreased over the past decades and now accounts for only about 10% of the total sup­ply.

Ground­wa­ter in the Kyiv region is used for drink­ing water sup­ply, house­hold needs, and irri­ga­tion of agri­cul­tur­al lands. In some areas of the region, drilling oper­a­tions are car­ried out to obtain ground­wa­ter from Cre­ta­ceous and Pleis­tocene for­ma­tions.

There are also min­er­al water deposits in the Kyiv region. The main aquifer hori­zons of min­er­al ground­wa­ter in the Kyiv region are asso­ci­at­ed with Pale­o­gene and Tri­as­sic deposits com­posed of sands, as well as with the frac­tured zone of Pre­cam­bri­an crys­talline rocks. The reserves of min­er­al waters at 4 deposits (6 sites) amount to 2,637.0 thou­sand m³/day, while the cur­rent extrac­tion is 10.575 thou­sand m³/day. From a ther­a­peu­tic point of view, the most valu­able are waters with spe­cif­ic com­po­nents and prop­er­ties. In the Kyiv region, these include the Bila Tserk­va and Myroniv­ka deposits of radon min­er­al waters, locat­ed with­in the hydro­ge­o­log­i­cal province of the Ukrain­ian Shield. The region also includes the Berezan‑1 deposit (nat­ur­al table min­er­al water) and the Brovary deposit (low-min­er­al­ized min­er­al water with­out spe­cif­ic com­po­nents or prop­er­ties).

Thus, the lev­el of devel­op­ment of explored exploitable reserves of both drink­ing and tech­ni­cal as well as min­er­al ground­wa­ter in the Kyiv region is very low, indi­cat­ing sig­nif­i­cant poten­tial for expand­ing their use. The Insti­tute of Geol­o­gy pro­vides high-lev­el exper­tise in geol­o­gy, hydro­ge­ol­o­gy, geo­chem­istry, geo­physics, and oth­er nat­ur­al sci­ences. If you are inter­est­ed, you can view the list of ser­vices here or fill out a form and we will con­tact you.