Mitryasova, O. CHRONICLES OF THIRST: DOCUMENTING MYKOLAIV'S WATER SECURITY CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN A WAR-AFFECTED CITY: Monograph. Mykolaiv: PMBSNU, 2026, 124 p.

CHRONICLES OF THIRST: DOCUMENTING MYKOLAIV'S WATER SECURITY CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN A WAR-AFFECTED CITY seems to ignore the human tragedy, creating a picturesque, but at the same time terrible picture of the consequences of a terrorist act. Fig. 1.28. "Venice" of the frontline city: flooded terraces of Mykolaiv (author's photo). Environmental echoes and threats to wells The explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant created a unique problem for Mykolaiv. If in the Kherson region the disaster was in the nature of rapid physical destruction, where the water element acted like a battering ram, demolishing entire houses and changing landscapes, then Mykolaiv faced a more insidious and long-lasting consequence — critical pollution of the water area. The city, which at that time had been surviving without access to the drinking system for more than a year, received a "double blow" to its water resources. Along with the gradual but inexorable rise in the level of rivers, everything that had been accumulating at the bottom of the Kakhovka reservoir for decades and that had been washed out of peaceful homes upstream arrived on the banks of Mykolaiv. It was a real "toxic landing". The large water raised silt from the bottom, in which industrial 48