Fresh water

Quality:

Fresh water - naturally occurring water with low concentrations of dissolved salts. Article “Fresh water” in Simple English Wikipedia has 17.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 3 references and 2 sections.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Fresh water”, its content was written by 37 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (4875^th place) and edited by 2118 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 304 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 33544 times in all languages (5054^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #163 in March 2010
• Global: #557 in May 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1198 in December 2008
• Global: #9867 in May 2017

There are 48 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, 2026 (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	Malay (ms) Air tawar		64.6157
2	English (en) Fresh water		64.108
3	Basque (eu) Ur geza		55.6892
4	Portuguese (pt) Água doce		41.7278
5	German (de) Süßwasser		41.6239
6	Turkish (tr) Tatlı su		36.9648
7	French (fr) Eau douce		36.9585
8	Chinese (zh) 淡水		31.2403
9	Spanish (es) Agua dulce		30.5974
10	Thai (th) น้ำจืด		28.8212

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Fresh water		5 738 438
2	Spanish (es) Agua dulce		2 988 341
3	Russian (ru) Пресная вода		970 153
4	French (fr) Eau douce		765 300
5	German (de) Süßwasser		694 600
6	Portuguese (pt) Água doce		692 720
7	Arabic (ar) ماء عذب		559 131
8	Japanese (ja) 淡水		546 457
9	Persian (fa) آب شیرین		421 613
10	Italian (it) Acqua dolce		337 204

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) Fresh water		10 836
2	German (de) Süßwasser		1 289
3	Russian (ru) Пресная вода		1 284
4	Spanish (es) Agua dulce		1 272
5	French (fr) Eau douce		1 096
6	Japanese (ja) 淡水		920
7	Portuguese (pt) Água doce		501
8	Persian (fa) آب شیرین		490
9	Polish (pl) Woda słodka		376
10	Chinese (zh) 淡水		366

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Fresh water		572
2	German (de) Süßwasser		173
3	French (fr) Eau douce		139
4	Spanish (es) Agua dulce		126
5	Portuguese (pt) Água doce		72
6	Italian (it) Acqua dolce		67
7	Danish (da) Ferskvand		66
8	Russian (ru) Пресная вода		66
9	Dutch (nl) Zoetwater		63
10	Chinese (zh) 淡水		51

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	Russian (ru) Пресная вода		2
2	English (en) Fresh water		1
3	Basque (eu) Ur geza		1
4	Croatian (hr) Slatka voda		1
5	Japanese (ja) 淡水		1
6	Arabic (ar) ماء عذب		0
7	Azerbaijani (az) İçməli su		0
8	Belarusian (be) Прэсная вада		0
9	Bulgarian (bg) Прясна вода		0
10	Catalan (ca) Aigua dolça		0

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

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