Water scarcity

Quality:

Water scarcity - when water demand exceeds available resources. Article “Water scarcity” in Simple English Wikipedia has 26.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 3 references and 6 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Water scarcity”, its content was written by 16 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1094 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 24 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 4926 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #377 in March 2020
• Global: #5302 in September 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #289 in July 2019
• Global: #13895 in June 2016

There are 27 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 scarcity		99.392
2	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		95.6967
3	Chinese (zh) 水資源短缺		87.7222
4	Greek (el) Λειψυδρία		87.0478
5	Dutch (nl) Waterschaarste		85.6768
6	German (de) Wasserknappheit		66.7234
7	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		56.3231
8	Catalan (ca) Escassetat d'aigua		50.8355
9	Swedish (sv) Vattenbrist		50.4718
10	Indonesian (id) Kelangkaan air		49.2722

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Water scarcity		4 284 567
2	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		1 767 461
3	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		702 742
4	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		417 528
5	Russian (ru) Дефицит водных ресурсов		342 534
6	French (fr) Stress hydrique (écologie)		230 855
7	Indonesian (id) Kelangkaan air		229 930
8	Japanese (ja) 水不足		210 197
9	German (de) Wasserknappheit		186 086
10	Arabic (ar) ندرة المياه		183 160

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 scarcity		9 540
2	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		3 390
3	Simple English (simple) Water scarcity		1 462
4	Russian (ru) Дефицит водных ресурсов		1 114
5	Japanese (ja) 水不足		606
6	French (fr) Stress hydrique (écologie)		514
7	German (de) Wasserknappheit		413
8	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		391
9	Chinese (zh) 水資源短缺		327
10	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		322

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Water scarcity		448
2	German (de) Wasserknappheit		209
3	Dutch (nl) Waterschaarste		51
4	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		50
5	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		45
6	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		43
7	French (fr) Stress hydrique (écologie)		40
8	Japanese (ja) 水不足		32
9	Turkish (tr) Su kıtlığı		26
10	Arabic (ar) ندرة المياه		19

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 scarcity		2
2	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		2
3	Arabic (ar) ندرة المياه		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Su qıtlığı		0
5	Catalan (ca) Escassetat d'aigua		0
6	German (de) Wasserknappheit		0
7	Greek (el) Λειψυδρία		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Akvomalabundo		0
9	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		0
10	French (fr) Stress hydrique (écologie)		0

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

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