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The window of a small shop, completely dark, at the blue hour of the evening. The dark glass reflects the light of a street lamp and the silhouette of a block of flats across the road. Two people walk along the pavement, seen from behind.
PUBLIC SERVICES

What changes in Ungheni under the two states of alert: shop windows go dark at 18.00, drinking water no longer washes the streets

On 28 July the Government declared a national state of alert in the energy sector and a state of hydrological alert, both for 30 days. On 3 August, the National Crisis Management Commission adopted two binding decisions: the administrators of public buildings and commercial premises switch off fountains, shop windows and decorative lighting between 18.00 and 06.00 and cut at least 30% of their interior lighting, while drinking water from public systems may no longer be used to wash streets or fill swimming pools. In blocks of flats with lifts, a notice must be posted on the ground floor. The next day, for the evening of 4 August, the power system had a forecast deficit in commercial terms between 21.00 and 23.00.

Ion Calmis·5 August 2026· Explainer
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An elevation profile showing the water's path from the Prut river and the Zagarancea treatment station, at roughly 40–50 metres altitude, climbing toward the hill of the village of Boghenii Vechi, at roughly 274 metres, with two pumping stations along the way.
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How water climbs from the Prut up to the hill of Boghenii Vechi: the commune has brought its water main into all four of its villages

The Boghenii Noi commune hall announced on 22 July that it had completed connecting the village of Boghenii Vechi to the water main, including the 'hill zone' — the hardest part to supply, because the water has to be pumped more than 200 metres higher than the source. The water comes from Zagarancea, from the Prut river, the same source that also supplies the town of Ungheni. In official statistics, the village shows a public water network only from 2025: 3.1 km and 59 connected dwellings. It is a small piece of a national process that, in 2024, delivered 507 of the 561 kilometres of new network precisely in villages.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· Analysis
Urban garden laid out in the centre of a small town, with flower beds, young shrubs, paths and benches, bordered by low buildings; warm summer light, no identifiable people.
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Ungheni City Hall calls itself „just a partner” in the downtown garden — but it puts up half the budget

The green space between Înfrățirii Square and the Episcopal Cathedral, covering 0,8 hectares, is being turned into an „urban garden” through a cross-border project funded by the European Union. The total budget is 303.802,50 euros, and Ungheni City Hall states on its page that it is „just a partner”. Programme documents show, however, that the municipality holds the largest individual budget in the project — 152.261 euros, or 50,1% — more than the organisation leading the project. Work begins about five months before the completion deadline.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
An open trench cut into the asphalt of a city street, with a thick metal pipe exposed and water pooling at the bottom; beside it, excavated earth and pavement kerbs.
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Seven hours announced, a second day without water: Ungheni District Hospital on the list of those affected

A leak on a water main 500 millimetres in diameter at 8 Vasile Lupu Street was announced on Thursday for a seven-hour intervention, between 09:00 and 16:00. On Friday, the operator said the works were continuing, “as unforeseen technical complications arose during the intervention”, with a new deadline estimated at 17:00. The list of affected consumers on the second day also includes Ungheni District Hospital, which did not appear on the first one. In 2024, the operator reported 270 unplanned interruptions, 268 of which were resolved within the regulatory deadline.

Ion Calmis·17 July 2026· News
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A contactless payment validator mounted on a pole inside a bus, showing a card pictogram and the message «Please validate your card or ticket» on its screen.
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«Were not confirmed»: Ungheni's transport operator finds no double charge and will not say how it checked

Three days after several passengers complained, in the comments under the notice about paying by card on the bus, about multiple charges, SRL «Servicii Comunale Ungheni» announces that it «checked every case reported» and that nothing was confirmed, putting some of the complaints down to «fake profiles». The statement does not say how many cases were checked or by what method, and the questions Triunghi.md sent on 14 July remain unanswered. Under the notice, a woman from Ungheni keeps asking where the journeys on the travel card have gone.

Ion Calmis·17 July 2026· News
Printed documents with tables of figures spread across a desk, with a glass of clear water and a water meter in the foreground, in cold morning light
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Apă-Canal Ungheni responds to the water-tariff article: five clarifications, no figure disproved

SRL „Apă-Canal Ungheni” has published five clarifications on our article about the 40.01 lei/m³ tariff, in force since 14 July. Checked against the documents, they disprove no figure: two repeat figures the article had already published, one recalculates the electricity decrease on a different basis — 19.1% instead of 19.4%, the same conclusion — and the response also brings new data, which we publish: the structure of the roughly 140 employees, the history of the electricity price and the waste-water repumping stations. The main findings remain without comment. And three days after the tariff took effect, the operator's tariff page and the ANRE registry were still displaying the old price.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
A kitchen tap with a thin stream of water running into a metal sink
PUBLIC SERVICES

40.01 lei per cubic metre: the new water tariff applies from today. And electricity — the explanation given in public — has fallen by 19%

The new water tariff in the town of Ungheni took effect today, 14 July, when the regulator's decision was published in the Official Gazette. A family using 5 cubic metres a month will pay roughly 106 lei more per year. The explanation given in public — the cost of electricity to pump water from the Prut — does not hold: in the regulator's own figures, electricity fell by 19.4% and accounts for just 9% of the cost. More than three quarters of the tariff you pay is wages. The 30-day window to challenge it closed on 13 August: the municipal council did not challenge the decision, and the tariff is final.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A contactless payment validator mounted on a pole inside a bus, showing a card pictogram and the message «Please validate your card or ticket» on its screen.
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Ungheni's transport operator says double-charging is impossible. Its own website promises less — and nowhere does it say how you get your money back

Under the official notice about paying by card on the bus, people in Ungheni say they were charged twice and three times over, and one passenger says he paid 28 lei for a 6-lei ride. The operator guarantees on Facebook that «it is impossible to be charged twice». On its own portal, the guarantee is far narrower. We read the regulation approved by the local council, the operator's contract and the payment services law: the procedure by which a wrongly charged passenger gets their money back is written nowhere — but the law gives them firm deadlines, both with the operator and with the bank.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· Analysis
A carabinier in black uniform, with CARABINIERI written across the back and the coat of arms of Moldova on the sleeve, seen from behind, in a park.
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An 11-year-old boy lost in «Micul Cluj» park was walked home by carabinieri — the third person the same company has helped in 12 days

The boy, disoriented, could not find his own way home. Carabinieri on patrol identified where he lived and took him back to his parents. Across the whole country in 2025, carabinieri returned more than 20 lost children to their families — and the official rule when a child goes missing is to call 112 immediately, not after 24 hours.

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· News