[4] The village initially belonged to the Ruthenian Voivodeship of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and was ethnically Polish as early as the Middle Ages.

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the village became part of the new Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria of the Habsburg Empire in 1804.

[5] After the Polish–Ukrainian War ended in 1919, Zimna Woda became part of the Second Polish Republic.

On 18 July 1946, the place was renamed Vodiane (Водяне)[7] and on 18 December 1990, its name was reverted back to Zymna Voda.

[9][10] At the end of the 19th century, there were 111 households in Zymna Voda, and the population was 764, among whom the overwhelming majority were Poles, 83 were Germans and 55 were Jews.