BGR Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe

Public water supply of Germany 2019

Tab. 1:  Own production of public water suppliers in 2019 by federal state and water type

Federal state

Total

water

abstraction
(million m³)

Ground-

water

(%)

Spring

water
(%)

River-

bank

filtration

(%)

Enhan.

ground-

water

recharge
(%)

Lake +

reser-

voir

water

(%)

River

water

(%)

Baden-Württemberg64656.218.80.20,524.4̶
Bavaria95964.719.57.90.42.84.8
Berlin20924.1̶60.016.0̶̶
Brandenburg16587.6̶9.62.8̶̶
Bremen6100̶̶̶̶̶
Hamburg78100̶̶̶̶̶
Hesse38277.59.61.311.7̶̶
Lower Saxony60685.31.6̶0.412.6̶
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern9884.1̶3.1̶̶12.8
North Rhine-Westphalia120247.01.812.021.617.40.2
Rhineland-Palatinate24572.911.811.5̶3.8̶
Saarland6295.53.7̶̶0.7̶
Saxony24127.84.623.54.538.70.9
Saxony-Anhalt12345.90.32.012.139.7̶
Schleswig-Holstein20999.9̶̶̶0.1̶
Thuringia12041.714.1̶0.244.0̶
Germany535062.58.28.67.012.61.2

Data: Federal Statistical Office 2022. The regional classification is based on the location of the extraction facilities.

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