From July 20 to 24, the city of Ungheni brings together 25 young people aged 15–19 from Ungheni, Tulcea and Thermi for the "Green Deal" Camp: five days on climate change, renewable energy and green infrastructure. The camp is part of the European UCare project, with a budget of more than 1.4 million euros.
On 8 July, the town hall of Ungheni signed an agreement with the Institute of Ecology and Geography of the State University of Moldova, on wastewater, ecosystem services and ecological infrastructure. The stake is concrete: the town takes its drinking water from the Prut — for more than 40,000 people — and discharges its wastewater into the basin of the same Prut, through a treatment plant that, according to the town hall's own 2018 strategy, was running on the mechanical stage only. The USM researchers called to Ungheni are precisely the ones who measure how much such a plant degrades the river downstream.
PLASTICWISE, a cross-border project funded by the European Union, is monitoring plastic pollution in the Prut — the river from which the town of Ungheni draws its drinking water. On 25 June, partners from Romania and Moldova met at the Ungheni District Council and went down to the bank of the Prut, by «Micul Cluj» Park. The measurement results are not yet public — the study is still under way. And how dangerous microplastics in drinking water really are remains, according to the World Health Organization, a question without a final answer.
Environmental inspectors from Ungheni and the Border Police carried out fresh raids against illegal fishing on the Prut under the "TRITON 2026" operation and issued penalties — without saying how many. Yet on the Prut the spawning ban had ended on 7 June, so recreational fishing is allowed again. What remains banned are poaching gear, protected species and fishing without the border-zone access permit — with fines from 300 to 4,500 lei for individuals.
