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A cast-iron water pipe unearthed in a trench on a street in Ungheni, with water seeping from a joint, alongside an industrial flow meter
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26.3% of Ungheni's water is lost in transit — even as pipe failures drop: the 2025 report

The 2025 management report of Ungheni's water utility shows two trends moving in opposite directions. Unplanned failures on the distribution network fell from 270 to 256, and the average duration of an interruption dropped from 7.16 to 5.68 hours — nearly an hour and a half less. Dispatch calls reporting water outages collapsed: 263, down from 2,258 the previous year. At the same time, water losses rose from 21.2% to 26.3% of the volume abstracted. The utility abstracted 72,500 more cubic meters, sold 27,000 fewer, and the difference — roughly 100,000 cubic meters — was lost in transit. The operator attributes the increase in losses to the ongoing European-funded works at the treatment plant and the mains along Oranjeriei Street.

Ion Calmis·29 August 2026· Explainer
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An old, rusty cast-iron water main dug up in a muddy trench in the middle of a street; water leaks from a joint, with a worn manhole cover nearby.
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Ungheni's water is being modernised for tens of millions, yet it keeps breaking: 270 failures in a year on half-century-old pipes

Two outages in two days, on different streets, and the operator itself admits in the notice that „failures on the distribution network cannot be anticipated”. The explanation is in the figures: Ungheni municipality has about 139 kilometres of water pipes, more than 80% of them cast iron and steel aged 45–60 years, and in 2024 there were nearly 270 unplanned failures — around five a week. The big money invested in „Ungheni's water” (a project of about 32 million lei, plus European funds) went, however, to the source and to transport — the treatment plant, the trunk main, monitoring — not to replacing the pipes under the streets. That is why the water is both being modernised and constantly cut off.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· Explainer