SOMES Water Company - first established in 1892 - is today one of the largest water supply& waste water collection and treatment regional operators in Romania, servicing about three quarter of Million people from eight municipalities and 199 rural localities spread over more than 9,500 square kilometers in two neighboring Counties in North-West Romania, through over 3,000 km of water and over 1,500 km of sewage networks, 32 water sources and Water Purification Plants and 35 Waste Water Treatment Plants. New localities are taken over for operation each day. SOMES Water is also one of the few water&sewage public utilities certified according the integrated quality system for management -environment - labour health&safety systems SR EN ISO 9001: 2001, SR EN ISO 14001 : 2005 and SR OHSAS18001/2008 as well as according ISO 22000 regarding food safety. As one more singular feature, SOMES Water established in 1992, with the occasion of the centennial anniversary of the Company, a Water Museum - the only one of its kind in Romania and among few other similar in the world, about the history of drinking water distribution. Today the Water Museum is also the Headquarter for the Company