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Statistics: Population connected to wastewater collecting systems and wastewater treatment plants, in 2017
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The population connected to wastewater collecting systems in 2017 accounted for 50.8% of Romania’s usually resident population
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The population connected to wastewater collecting systems with wastewater treatment plants accounted for 49.4% of Romania’s usually resident population
In 2017, 9,978,886 inhabitants had their dwellings connected to the wastewater collecting systems, accounting for 50.8% of Romania’s usually resident population.
As for wastewater treatment, the population connected to wastewater collecting systems with wastewater treatment plants was of 9,710,077 persons, accounting for 49.4% of Romania’s usually resident population.
At the development regions level, the highest weight of population connected to the wastewater collecting systems in total usually resident population was in Bucharest?Ilfov region (84.%), followed by Center (62.9%) and West (57.8%).
The lowest level of population connected to wastewater collecting systems was in the regions:
South? Muntenia (35.0%), North?East (35.4%) and North?West (50.2%).
In 2017, in urban area, there were 9,234,259 persons connected to wastewater collecting systems, accounting for 87.7% of the Romania’s urban usually resident population, while in rural area there were 744,627 persons benefitted of wastewater collecting services, accounting for 8.2% of Romania’s rural usually resident population.