摘要：One of the specific objectives of the Sectoral Operational Programme Environment SOPENV is to Improve the quality and access to water and wastewater infrastructure, by providing watersupply and wastewater services in most urban areas by 2015 and by setting efficient regional waterand wastewater management structures. (Priority Axis 1 – Water: regional projects). In order toimplement the investments needed to comply with the relevant EU environmental directives forimproving the quality of water services and environment, the regional operators have access to the EUFunds from the current programming period 2007-2013. For the Priority Axis 1 the allocated fundsraise up to 2,78 billion Euros from Cohesion Funds and 0,49 Billion Euros from national cofinancing.The paper presents a comparative approach of current status of the regionalization processin the water sector in Romania as well main problems encountered by the regionalization process, ingeneral and the regional operators, in particular, presenting some solutions and success factors in theregionalization process in the Romanian water sector.
