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Ștefan Dincă

Student at National College Ecaterina Teodoroiu

SAD OCTOPUS

Ștefan Dincă

Student at National College Ecaterina Teodoroiu

SAD FISH

WATER SAVING

ROTARY HANDS ACROSS WATER

National College Ecaterina Teodoroiu

Târgu Jiu

     The world runs on water. Clean, reliable water supplies are vital for industry, agriculture, and energy production. Every community and ecosystem on Earth depends on water for sanitation, hygiene, and daily survival.

     Yet the world’s water systems face formidable threats. More than a billion people currently live in water-scarce regions, and as many as 3.5 billion could experience water scarcity by 2025. Increasing pollution degrades freshwater and coastal aquatic ecosystems. And climate change is poised to shift precipitation patterns and speed glacial melt, altering water supplies and intensifying floods and drought.

     After 2007, Romania adopted and implemented EU legislation on water management. Romanian groundwaters are polluted locally from point sources (landfills) and from diffuse sources of pollution (fertilizers, pesticides and canals, in urban areas). Over-exploitation of underground water wells can lead to indirect diffuse pollution, causing salty water intrusion, exploitation of mineral aggregates. In order to establish water quality, Romania applies a monitoring flow in accordance with the WFD, both for surface water bodies as well as for groundwater bodies. Nowadays are 3.027 surface water bodies from which 2470 are natural water bodies, 488 heavily modified water bodies and 69 artificial water bodies. 50% of all bodies of surface water have been classified as heavily modified water bodies (35%) or artificial water (15%) while 16% (23/143) of underground water bodies were outside the chemical parameters imposed by the rules.

Only almost half of Romanians had their houses connected to the main sewage system in 2020, slightly up compared to 2019, according to data from the country's Statistics Institute. 43,7 percent of Romania's population had their homes connected to the sewage system, which is 21.977 kilometers long in Romania. 309 cities and 489 villages in Romania have a sewage system, according to statistics.

Statistics also show that Romanians used less drinkable water in 2020 than in 2019. However, they used more water for household activities.  The average daily consumption of drinkable water for household use was of 127.7 liters per inhabitant in cities, up 2.2 percent on 2019.