Summary:

In this study characteristics of drilled wells and artesian waters taken from them that occured in the formations of Quaternary period, Miocene period, paleoStefan Satora 168 gene, Oligocene, Cretaceous, Jurassic, Triassic and Carboniferous period of Małopolska province, was presented. The artesian waters taken from 116 drilled wells with depth from about 14,5 (Quaternary) to 5261,0 m (Oligocene) and unitary capacity from 0,001(Jurassic) to 375,0 (Triassic) m³·h^-1·m^-1 were characterised by artesian pressure from 2,0 up to 3021,0 m H₂O and useful pressure from 0,1 up to 245,0 m H₂O. The highest artesian and useful pressures were found in wells taken from clastic, flysh Oligocene layers of Interior Carpathian, and the lowest – in wells the was recharged by sandy-gravel of formation Quaternary. The highest amount of artesian wells on the studied area, 69 of artesian wells that constituted about 42,6% of all, is recharged by carbonate measures of Mesozoic era.