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Do you extract water from surface waters or groundwater or pump or discharge groundwater? Then a fee must be paid to the respective federal state.

In Germany, a water abstraction charge can be levied for the abstraction and discharge of water from surface waters, as well as for the abstraction, extraction, underground conduction and discharge of groundwater. The individual federal states decide whether and to what extent a water abstraction charge is levied.

There is no uniform regulation in the federal states in which the water abstraction charge is levied.

Anyone who withdraws or discharges water from surface waters or withdraws, extracts, extracts or discharges groundwater is liable to pay water abstraction charges. Further details are regulated by the federal states.

The amount of the charge is generally based on the medium from which the water was taken (groundwater or surface water), the amount of water and the rate of charge to be applied in each case.

Anyone who owes the fee must provide the water authority with the information required to determine the fee in a declaration by February 15 of the year following the assessment period and provide suitable evidence.

The processing time depends on the quality and scope of the forms and documents submitted.

• Anyone who owes the fee must provide the water authority with the information required to determine the fee by February 15 of the year following the assessment period and provide suitable evidence.

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A water abstraction charge may be levied in 13 out of 16 federal states for the abstraction and discharge of water from surface waters, as well as for the abstraction, extraction, underground transportation and discharge of groundwater.

• As a rule, the lower water authorities are responsible for levying the water abstraction charge: districts, independent and large independent cities, Hannover region
• In certain cases the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) is responsible for levying the water abstraction charge

• As a rule, the lower water authorities are responsible for levying the water abstraction charge: districts, independent and large independent cities, Hannover region
• In certain cases the Lower Saxony State Agency for Water Management, Coastal Defence and Nature Conservation (NLWKN) is responsible for levying the water abstraction charge