A total of 9.34 million Romanians had their houses connected to sewage systems in 2013, meaning 46.8 percent of the country’s population, according to data from the National Statistics Institute INS. However, the number is slightly lower than the figure registered the year before.

In the urban area, over 8.9 million inhabitants had their homes connected to sewage systems, or 89.2 percent of the urban population in Romania. In the rural area, only 427,000 inhabitants benefited from the sewage system, meaning 4.7 percent of the rural population of Romania.

For wastewater treatement, statistics show 8.8 million people had their houses connected to sewage provided with treatment plants last year, representing 44.5 percent of the country’s population, according to INS data.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com