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 FOREWORD For Mykolaiv, the war began not only with explosions, but also with silence that suddenly fell in the main pipes. On April 12, 2022, water in the city ceased to be just a communal good — it turned into a target. The purposeful explosion of a water supply system in the occupied Kherson region was the beginning of an unprecedented experiment in the survival of a city of half a million, which the enemy tried to break with thirst. The monograph "Chronicles of thirst…" is a chronicle of the transformation of the "city on the water" into a city that fights for every drop. This is the result of recording events in real time, where behind each digit of laboratory analysis there are queues with eggplants, the noise of generators near wells and the bitter taste of salt in the taps. The relevance of this work lies in its documentary uniqueness. Mykolaiv has become a modern polis that has been teetering on the brink of ecocide for more than four years. This experience — harsh, painful, but technologically invaluable — is a manifesto of how a community is able to transform a critical vulnerability into a new architecture of resilience. The central platforms for this fixation were the Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University and the NGO "Open Ecological University", and the aspects of the analysis of the problem in the book unfold through three vectors: A hydrochemical chronicle where the analysis of the waters of the Buh estuary and city networks becomes a chronicle protocol. We document how the chemical composition of water changed from the "salt catastrophe" of 2023 to the fragile stabilization of 2026, when the turbidity of 7 NTU remains a mute witness to the corroded pipes. The social dimension of the study of the "blue economy" and the everyday narratives of residents, when we describe how plastic containers have become the main attribute of the cityscape, and access to water has formed a special military culture — harsh and patient. Aesthetics of Resistance and Children's Perspective through the Artistic Rethinking of the Ecological Situation of Mykolaiv. From large-scale murals "Big Fish" and "Tree of Life", which have become visual amulets of the city, to children's eco-drawings. It is in children's creativity that thirst appears most naked, and hope for clear water — the most sincere. Art and photography have been able to document what numbers cannot convey. This book is about the experience of preserving the life of the city in the face of a critical shortage of resources. It offers a new look at water security as a strategic shield that 5