Assessment of water needs in the lower Dnipro sub-basin following the destruction of the Kakhovka reservoir

The paper describes the purposes of the Kakhovka reservoir, which was the final in a series of large reservoirs created out of the Dnipro River in Ukraine. Importantly the paper presents the water consumption balances of the reservoir prior to its destruction on June 6, 2023. This consumption is divided up by economic sector—energy, agriculture, fishing, industry, transport, and household use and also with details on inter- and intra-annual water demand trends and variations (prior to destructio