Eurostat has reported that 80.7 per cent of the EU population was connected to wastewater treatment systems with at least secondary treatment in 2023 , reflecting ongoing progress in water infrastructure.
This marked an increase of 3.4 percentage points compared with 2013 , when the figure stood at 77.3 per cent, while remaining broadly stable compared with 2022, when it reached 80.8 per cent.
The data, based on information from
