Wasserbuch Niedersachsen

Since 1 January 2008, the Lower Water Authorities and the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal and nature conservation (NLWKN) in their respective areas of responsibility for entries in the electronically managed water book responsible. The Water Book contains the so-called water rights, i.e. essential legal relationships with water management as well as water management protected areas. It serves to inform professionals and the public. The data volume amounts to approximately 70,000 water rights with over 100,000 places of use. To make the task as effective as possible a new internet-based program Wasserbuch- und Wasserentnahme Niedersachsen (WBE) was created, which is connected to the already existing state database (LDB). Through this connection, a variety of evaluation options are available of the entered data directly after entry. In addition to the registration of water rights, the WBE programme also serves to record the withdrawal quantities required to determine the water abstraction fee (WEG) and to calculate the WEG.