Wasseramt District

Wasseramt District is one of the ten districts of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland, situated to the south of the canton. Together with the Bucheggberg District, it forms the Amtei (electoral district) of Wasseramt-Bucheggberg. It has a population of (as of ). Wasseramt District contains the following municipalities: On 1 January 1993 the former municipalities of Heinrichswil and Winistorf merged to form the new municipality of Heinrichswil-Winistorf and Ammannsegg and Lohn merged to form the new municipality of Lohn-Ammannsegg. At the same time, Burgäschi merged into the municipality of Aeschi. On 1 January 2012 the municipality of Steinhof merged into the municipality of Aeschi. On 1 January 2013 the former municipalities of Heinrichswil-Winistorf and Hersiwil merged to form the new municipality of Drei Höfe. Wasseramt has an area, , of . Of this area, or 47.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 25.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.1% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.9% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 12.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.0%. Out of the forested land, 25.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 45.5% is used for growing crops, while 1.5% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the district, 0.3% is in lakes and 1.1% is in rivers and streams. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Bendy sinistery Gules and Argent. Wasseramt has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks German (40,267 or 86.9%), with Italian being second most common (1,778 or 3.8%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (989 or 2.1%). There are 312 people who speak French and 21 people who speak Romansh. the gender distribution of the population was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.