Out of the EU countries, Cyprus, Malta and Romania have the highest values, over 20% (the EU average is 5.8%) of the Water Exploitation Index (WEI), 20% being the threshold from which the index shows water deficit, writes on Friday Eurostat, the statistics office of the EU. The Water Exploitation Index (WEI+) measures total freshwater consumption as a percentage of renewable freshwater resources (groundwater and surface water) at a given time and place. It quantifies how much water is abstracted and how much water returns to the environment after use. The difference between water abstraction and return is considered as water use and illustrates the pressure on renewable freshwater resources due to water demand. It is true, the regional differences and the seriousness of the water deficit during summer months are not visible in these annual national average values. Last year, one of the engines for inflation in Romania was the lack of products due to lengthy drought. In Romania, a World Bank report shows that water suppliers do not have the training and the capacity to manage droughty periods. Thus, during the drought of 2022, the Romanian Water Association and the National Authority for Regulation for Community Services for Public Utilities – ANRSC received several referrals to services suppliers in Romania with regards to the challenges they face to keep water supply. The Romanian officials say that safe drinkable water supply needs more work during droughts, but supplementary personnel hiring is not possible. Starting with 1951, Romania has passed through several prolonged droughty periods and two droughts at national level (2012 and 2022). The drought indicators for medium and long terms show that Romania has experienced longer periods of drought at least for three times between 1951 and 2022. We mention the fact that 22nd March is the World Water Day.
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race. The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
