Gouvernance et fragmentations socio-spatiales des services d’eau en Roumanie. Une analyse à l’aune de la notion de transition

This article lies in a specific standpoint to approach the governance change of public services. The transition approach presupposes deciphering the indicators of change, understanding their strenght, their shapes, driving forces and constraints. To do this, the focus is on the stakeholders for access to water services in Romania ; it asks as much the institutional change since the end of communist era than the spatial and economical development patterns since the European Union integration. If this country presents a real change in types of utilities management and tarification services, the regulatory system holds a centralization and the urban growth poles pattern as a « dependency path ». Thus the spatial indicators reveal a rising gap between the major towns and the rural areas or small towns. The atony of transition can be explained by social and political functioning in Romania, by norm?s system in EU that support the existant framework and by a line of business lowly attracting.