Water supply industry Public waste water treatment plants and annual quantity of waste water

Survey of public waste water treatment and disposal 2019, by Land

Public waste water treatment plants (with a capacity of 50 or more population equivalents1 ) and annual quantity of waste water
Regional breakdown
Plants, totalDesign capacity according
to notice of approval
Annual average of
population equivalents
connected1
Annual quantity of waste waterSewage water per
population equivalent
and day2
totalof which
domestic and industrial
sewage water
infiltration waterprecipitation water
numbernumber of p.e.1 000 m³l/(p.e.*d)
12345678

Regional allocation depending on the location of the waste water treatment plant.
1: p.e.= population equivalents related to 60g BOD /day or 120g COD /day.
2: Related to the annual average of population equivalents connected.

- = No figures or magnitude zero.

Germany8,891152,061,757115,432,5619,047,9425,133,3381,561,9942,352,610122
Western German non-city Länder6,679122,376,30690,601,6057,797,8914,180,5021,408,3822,209,007126
Eastern Germany not including Berlin2,20623,466,45119,342,388947,384712,752118,535116,097101
City states 66,219,0005,488,568302,667240,08435,07727,506120
Baden-Württemberg91821,009,99615,530,8161,520,097576,305365,448578,344102
Bayern2,32427,026,74319,139,2951,687,415952,198286,742448,475136
Berlin11,600,0001,877,52490,34083,148- 7,192121
Brandenburg2325,777,3505,790,366241,885222,9875,15113,747106
Bremen41,699,0001,221,04460,92750,1265,8874,914112
Hamburg12,920,0002,390,000151,400106,81029,19015,400122
Hessen68110,254,0148,175,016802,889316,156228,315258,418106
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern5873,332,6412,358,21289,65578,7455,5365,37491
Niedersachsen59214,964,60611,224,478540,502457,19460,03823,270112
Nordrhein-Westfalen59634,920,85625,816,0872,393,5631,435,024320,765637,774152
Rheinland-Pfalz6607,014,1185,471,755497,118225,81393,154178,151113
Saarland1301,527,6251,381,008167,92759,67437,59170,662118
Sachsen6355,761,9594,974,087318,297191,06664,15763,074105
Sachsen-Anhalt2235,136,7403,708,242138,314117,44710,56810,29987
Schleswig-Holstein7785,658,3483,863,150188,380158,13816,32913,913112
Thüringen5293,457,7612,511,481159,233102,50733,12323,603112

As at 10 January 2022

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