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2.5.     Groundwater bodies

All 24 Member States have reported groundwater bodies. In total 12 600 groundwater bodies from 133 River Basin Districts have been reported. Sweden and Finland reported 3021 and 3804 groundwater bodies and thus accounted for more half of the groundwater bodies. Compared to the other Member States the average size of groundwater bodies Sweden and Finland is 7 km² while the average size the groundwater bodies for the other Member States is 600 km².

Source: Extract from WISE-WFD http://wfd.atkins.dk/report/WFD_aggregation_reports/GWB_status   

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The total area of reported groundwater bodies is 3.5 million km². Groundwater bodies have been for different horizon and groundwater bodies may overlay other groundwater bodies.