Romanian’s experience in waste water statistics National Institute of Statistics ROMANIA

September, Almaty  Surface: km 2 - the twelfth largest country in Europe  Situated half way between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the Atlantic Coast and the Ural Mountains  245 km of Black Sea coastline - southeast

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4 Romanian water resources  Romania’s hydrographical network - almost entirely included in Danube’s Basin 97,4%  1075 km length (40% of its entire length) of the Danube River - Europe's second longest river after the Volga  Romania’s water resources:  surface waters – inner rivers, lakes, the Danube  groundwater - 10%  m 3 /inhabitant/year

September, Almaty Water statistics Water statistics – establishing links between:  Available water quantities – water abstraction – water use  Water quality – quantity of pollutants Water statistics Water statistics Quantitative statistics Assessment of water quantities Abstraction source: surface underground sea Users: industry agriculture population Quantitative statistics Assessment of water quantities Abstraction source: surface underground sea Users: industry agriculture population Qualitative statistics Pollution sources (industry, agriculture, population) point sources diffuse sources Quantities of pollutants Waste water treatment Qualitative statistics Pollution sources (industry, agriculture, population) point sources diffuse sources Quantities of pollutants Waste water treatment

September, Almaty Institutional Frame for water statistics  producing regular statistics on water and data reporting at national and international level  avoiding the parallelism in the conduct of statistical surveys and reducing the response burden of the economic agents  involve the participation of:  National Institute of Statistics  Ministry Of Environment and Forestry  National Administration “Romanian Waters”

September, Almaty Institutional Frame for water statistics Ministry of Environment and Forestry  National environmental policy  Forest management and sustainable development  Water management:  Establishment of water resources regime  Monitoring of the water cadastre  Coordination of the Danube River management plan throughout the Romanian territory  Coordination of water rivers basins management in order to achieve a good water quality

September, Almaty Institutional Frame for water statistics National Administration “Romanian Waters”  Under Ministry of Environment and Forestry authority  Applies the national strategy and policy in water management field  11 Water Directorates, organized by basins and group of basins  Monitors the waters quality in Romania under National Monitoring System for Water Quality:  natural sources: running waters, lakes (natural and anthropic), maritime water, groundwater  pollution sources: wastewater

September, Almaty Institutional Frame for water statistics National Institute of Statistics  Coordinates the Romanian official statistics, subordinated to the Romanian government  On a territorial level – 8 Regional Statistical Offices and 34 County Statistical Offices  The General Department for Agriculture and Environment Statistics includes the Department for Forestry and Environment Statistics which includes water statistics  The data concerning water statistics are disseminated by:  Press releases  Dissemination Desk operating at the NIS main office  Statistical publications of the series “Environment Statistics – Statistical Data”,  TEMPO-on line time series - data base which can be accessed on NIS website

September, Almaty Institutional Frame for water statistics National Institute of Statistics National Institute of Statistics 3 statistical surveys Water distribution Population connected to waste water collecting systems and treatment plants Waste water generation, treatment and discharge The annual statistical surveys programme – the frame for official statistics

September, Almaty Cooperation Protocol National Institute of Statistics Ministry of Environment and Forestry  Producing regular statistics on water field  Coordination of the statistical activities carried out by various institutions  Insurance a permanent information flow between institutions  Improvement the quality and compatibility of the produced data  Setting up the statistical survey “Waste water collection, treatment and discharge” NIS and National Administration “Romanian Waters”  Setting up a working group for coordinating the activity of water statistics compilation and dissemination

September, Almaty Information flow Ministry of Environment and Forestry National Administration “Romanian Waters” National Institute of Statistics

September, Almaty Water distribution survey Statistical collectivity - All units with activity NACE 36 - Economical units licensed for abstracting flow rates higher than 100 l/sec (permits issued by Romanian Waters) Statistical collectivity - All units with activity NACE 36 - Economical units licensed for abstracting flow rates higher than 100 l/sec (permits issued by Romanian Waters) Main indicators Water distributed by NACE 36 to: - Agriculture - Mining and quarrying - Manufacturing industry - Production of electricity - Services - Other economic activities - Population Water distributed by NACE 36 to: - Agriculture - Mining and quarrying - Manufacturing industry - Production of electricity - Services - Other economic activities - Population Population connected to public water supply: - national level - hydrographical level - NUTS regions Population connected to public water supply: - national level - hydrographical level - NUTS regions

September, Almaty Population connected to waste water collecting and treatment systems Main indicators Population connected to urban sewage system of which Connected to WWTP Not connected to WWTP Population connected to UWWTP of which: Connected to primary treatment Connected to secondary treatment Connected to tertiary treatment Population connected to industrial WWTP Population connected to independent WWTP of which: with secondary treatment Statistical collectivity municipalities of cities with sewerage systems Statistical collectivity municipalities of cities with sewerage systems

September, Almaty Population connected to waste water collecting systems, in 2010

September, Almaty Joint Questionnaire OECD/Eurostat – INLAND WATERS INLAND WATERS TABLE 4: Population connected to wastewater treatment plants Territory: RORomania Units Resident population 1000's % of resident population connected to: Urban wastewater treatment1% of tot. pop.30,5528,9028,6028,3327,9927,4927,16 of which: (a) - Primary treatment % of tot. pop.8,688,3010,507,948,3010,6010,24 - Secondary treatment % of tot. pop.21,1320,6018,1020,3919,6916,8916,92 - Tertiary treatment % of tot. pop.0,73 Other wastewater treatment2% of tot. pop.0,170,200,300,100,090,210,32 Urban wastewater collecting system with treatment1+2% of tot. pop.30,7129,1028,928,4328,0827,7027,48 Urban wastewater collecting system without treatment3% of tot. pop.12,9414,0014,114,2213,8912,7312,98 Total urban wastewater collecting system ** % of tot. pop.43,543,1043,042,6541,9740,4340,46 Independent wastewater treatment5% of tot. pop.3,443,203,403,503,301,780,55 of which at least secondary treatment % of tot. pop.0,70,10 Total connected to wastewater treatment **1+2+5% of tot. pop.34,1632,30 31,9331,3829,8428,03

September, Almaty Waste water collection, treatment and discharge survey National Institute of Statistics and National Administration “Romanian Waters” developing the methodology printing the questionnaires supplying IT tool technical assistance for software use collaboration at data validation data dissemination: statistical publication TEMPO-on line data transmission to Eurostat developing the methodology printing the questionnaires supplying IT tool technical assistance for software use collaboration at data validation data dissemination: statistical publication TEMPO-on line data transmission to Eurostat establishing list of economic operators questionnaires distribution technical assistance for filling questionnaires data collection, processing and validation centralized data transmission to NIS establishing list of economic operators questionnaires distribution technical assistance for filling questionnaires data collection, processing and validation centralized data transmission to NIS Statistical collectivity all economic operators or public administration services which are collecting and discharging waste water in water bodies Statistical collectivity all economic operators or public administration services which are collecting and discharging waste water in water bodies “Romanian Waters”National Institute of Statistics

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September, Almaty Waste water collection, treatment and discharge survey Questionnaire structure Part 1 - Wastewater treatment plants capacity 3 types of treatment plants:  UWWTP - operated by the local public administration  Industrial WWTP – operated by the industrial facilities  Independent waste water treatment plants – mini treatment stations for the waste water discharged from residential areas or small social/commercial units (hospitals, schools, military units) Main indicators Number of treatment plants: urban, industrial, independent Design and actual capacity, expressed in BOD5 Wastewater flow rate (effluent)

September, Almaty Waste water collection, treatment and discharge survey Questionnaire structure Part 2 - Waste water generation by type of activity Indicators Flow rate Pollutants: - BOD5 - COD - Suspended solids - N-tot, P-tot - Heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) Waste water from economic activities - Agriculture, forestry and fishing - Manufacturing industries - Production and distribution of electricity - Construction - All industrial activities Domestic waste water - Services - Private households

September, Almaty Waste water collection, treatment and discharge survey Questionnaire structure Part 3 - Discharged waste water – indicators: flow rate and pollutants Industrial waste water Discharged in the urban collecting system: With UWWTP Without UWWTP Discharged into own collecting system: With Industrial WWTP Without Industrial WWTP Domestic waste water Discharged in the urban collecting system: With UWWTP Without UWWTP Discharged into own collecting system : With independent treatment Without independent treatment Effluent of UWWTP Effluent of Industrial WWTP Effluent of Independent WWTP

September, Almaty INLAND WATERS TABLE 7: Generation and discharge of wastewater Territory: ROROMANIA NACEUnits VOLUME GENERATION OF WASTEWATER (32) - POINT SOURCES (Total) (a) ** 10 6 m³4.874, , ,14 of which: Agriculture, forestry, fishing (b)( )10 6 m³3,525,142,13 Industry, total( )10 6 m³3.794, , ,50 Mining and quarrying( )10 6 m³63,4374,1252,48 Manufacturing industries( )10 6 m³ of which: foodprocessing industry( )10 6 m³32,8744,1939,74 basic metals(24)10 6 m³173,23143,57256,84 motor vehicles and transport equipment( )10 6 m³5,463,363,88 textiles etc.( )10 6 m³8,207,559,17 paper & paper products(17)10 6 m³9,006,4814,88 chemical products & refined petroleum( )10 6 m³115,12107,55142,15 Production & distribution of electricity (excluding cooling water)( )10 6 m³3.105, , ,37 Construction( )10 6 m³4,283,143,50 Domestic sources ** 10 6 m³1.079, , ,52 Services( )10 6 m³483,77434,27477,29 private households10 6 m³595,71599,98599,23 NON-POINT SOURCES (d)10 6 m³ ALL SOURCES **10 6 m³4.874, , ,14

September, Almaty INLAND WATERS TABLE 7: Generation and discharge of wastewater Territory: RO ROMANI A NACEUnits TREATMENT AND DISCHARGE OF WASTEWATER Wastewater generated by domestic sources (c) (37) ** 10 6 m³1.079,480, ,52 of which: treated, total (33) ** 10 6 m³623,13606,06642,19 of which: in wastewater treatment plants (urban (35) and other (43)) 10 6 m³612,40597,68631,50 in independent treatment facilities (45) 10 6 m³10,728,3710,69 of which: discharged, total (51) ** 10 6 m³1.034, , ,02 of which: after treatment 10 6 m³623,13606,06642,19 without treatment 10 6 m³411,05426,80433,82 Total wastewater generated by industry (e) (38) ** 10 6 m³3.794, , ,63 of which: treated, total (33) 10 6 m³652,58394,16591,07 of which: discharged, total (51) ** 10 6 m³3.794, , ,63 of which: after treatment 10 6 m³652,58394,16591,07 without treatment 10 6 m³3.141, , ,56 Discharges of wastewater treatment plants (urban (35) and other (43)) 10 6 m³1.226,80970, ,39 Discharges from non-point sources 10 6 m³ Total discharges to Inland waters (g) (51)10 6 m³4.834, , ,38 Total discharges to the sea (51)10 6 m³

September, Almaty Waste water collection, treatment and discharge survey Questionnaire structure Part 4 – Sewage sludge production and disposal data concerning the process of sludge treatment from the UWWTP, Industrial WWTP, Independent WWTP, the annual volume (expressed in thousands m 3 /year), the dry substance (tonnes/year), the total quantity of resulted sludge, as well as the main procedures of its processing:  Total sludge production  Total sludge disposal  Agricultural use  Compost  Disposal as landfill  Incinerated sludge

September, Almaty Difficulties Difficult to measure or to estimate the pollutants present in the raw industrial and domestic wastewater discharged into the urban collecting system For the industrial units which discharge waste water partially in urban collecting system and partially in natural receiver – attention to avoid double counting Data concerning effluents characterization by different treatment stage of the WWTP are in some cases difficult to find out Population connected to independent treatment

September, Almaty Data gaps О Diffusion pollution - pollution from widespread activities with no one discrete source (pesticides, urban run-off, forestry, construction) О can not be measured directly and is only estimated by models that take into account various factors such as soil structure, precipitation, wind speed, temperature etc. О In many countries these studies are performed ​​ (if any) by specialized institutes and universities in certain periods of time О Water use by self supply – in present we are collecting data on water use only from public water supply О Data aggregation at NUTS level – in present we are collecting data on waste water only on hydrographical basin level and at national level

September, Almaty Future plans  Data aggregation on regional level (NUTS)  Water use  Estimation of water consumption in rural areas  Development of NAMEA Water account - Physical supply and use

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