Water pollution

Quality:

Water pollution - contamination of water bodies. Article “Water pollution” in Simple English Wikipedia has 16.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 181^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 1583^rd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2026^th most popular in all topics.

The 4664^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 731^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Water pollution”, its content was written by 65 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (1583^rd place) and edited by 3657 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4664^th place).

The article is cited 67 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 10304 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #55 in September 2020
• Global: #592 in April 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #26 in February 2018
• Global: #830 in May 2013

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Water pollution		99.3521
2	Chinese (zh) 水污染		81.321
3	Turkish (tr) Su kirliliği		62.3973
4	Czech (cs) Znečištění vody		60.4655
5	Romanian (ro) Poluarea apei		59.0742
6	French (fr) Pollution de l'eau		56.8621
7	Estonian (et) Veereostus		52.2135
8	Slovak (sk) Znečistenie vody		51.9303
9	Spanish (es) Contaminación hídrica		51.048
10	Arabic (ar) تلوث المياه		50.9488

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Water pollution		25 552 318
2	Spanish (es) Contaminación hídrica		12 406 040
3	Arabic (ar) تلوث المياه		3 772 085
4	Portuguese (pt) Poluição da água		3 002 413
5	Hindi (hi) जल प्रदूषण		2 848 355
6	French (fr) Pollution de l'eau		2 684 415
7	Indonesian (id) Pencemaran air		2 037 583
8	Russian (ru) Загрязнение пресных вод		1 156 556
9	Italian (it) Inquinamento idrico		1 038 663
10	Turkish (tr) Su kirliliği		1 003 039

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Water pollution		23 100
2	Spanish (es) Contaminación hídrica		6 312
3	Simple English (simple) Water pollution		3 556
4	Hindi (hi) जल प्रदूषण		3 205
5	Arabic (ar) تلوث المياه		1 247
6	Korean (ko) 수질 오염		1 002
7	Russian (ru) Загрязнение пресных вод		1 001
8	French (fr) Pollution de l'eau		974
9	Romanian (ro) Poluarea apei		942
10	Portuguese (pt) Poluição da água		908

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Water pollution		1 052
2	French (fr) Pollution de l'eau		297
3	Spanish (es) Contaminación hídrica		282
4	Italian (it) Inquinamento idrico		184
5	German (de) Gewässerverschmutzung		176
6	Portuguese (pt) Poluição da água		134
7	Hebrew (he) זיהום מים		130
8	Dutch (nl) Watervervuiling		129
9	Arabic (ar) تلوث المياه		88
10	Czech (cs) Znečištění vody		79

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Water pollution		3
2	Estonian (et) Veereostus		2
3	Hindi (hi) जल प्रदूषण		2
4	Hebrew (he) זיהום מים		1
5	Dutch (nl) Watervervuiling		1
6	Arabic (ar) تلوث المياه		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Замърсяване на водите		0
8	Catalan (ca) Contaminació de l'aigua		0
9	Czech (cs) Znečištění vody		0
10	Danish (da) Vandforurening		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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