Water scarcity

Quality:

Water scarcity - when water demand exceeds available resources. Article “Water scarcity” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). 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 18 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1142 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 30 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 5334 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #376 in March 2020
• Global: #5308 in September 2021

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #292 in July 2019
• Global: #13910 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, 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	English (en) Water scarcity		99.6287
2	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		95.4068
3	Greek (el) Λειψυδρία		87.7706
4	Dutch (nl) Waterschaarste		85.2267
5	Chinese (zh) 水資源短缺		82.8383
6	German (de) Wasserknappheit		65.8217
7	Indonesian (id) Kelangkaan air		56.9852
8	Swedish (sv) Vattenbrist		53.415
9	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		50.6666
10	Catalan (ca) Escassetat d'aigua		50.2467

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Water scarcity		4 356 859
2	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		1 790 963
3	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		707 595
4	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		432 396
5	Russian (ru) Дефицит водных ресурсов		356 661
6	French (fr) Stress hydrique (écologie)		236 849
7	Indonesian (id) Kelangkaan air		232 063
8	Japanese (ja) 水不足		216 014
9	German (de) Wasserknappheit		192 461
10	Arabic (ar) ندرة المياه		185 742

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		4 666
2	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		971
3	Russian (ru) Дефицит водных ресурсов		628
4	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		616
5	French (fr) Stress hydrique (écologie)		406
6	Japanese (ja) 水不足		354
7	Chinese (zh) 水資源短缺		313
8	German (de) Wasserknappheit		279
9	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		262
10	Greek (el) Λειψυδρία		156

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		459
2	German (de) Wasserknappheit		220
3	Dutch (nl) Waterschaarste		51
4	Portuguese (pt) Escassez de água		51
5	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		46
6	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		45
7	French (fr) Stress hydrique (écologie)		41
8	Japanese (ja) 水不足		32
9	Turkish (tr) Su kıtlığı		26
10	Arabic (ar) ندرة المياه		20

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	Spanish (es) Escasez de agua		3
2	Greek (el) Λειψυδρία		2
3	English (en) Water scarcity		2
4	Indonesian (id) Kelangkaan air		2
5	Arabic (ar) ندرة المياه		1
6	Azerbaijani (az) Su qıtlığı		0
7	Catalan (ca) Escassetat d'aigua		0
8	German (de) Wasserknappheit		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Akvomalabundo		0
10	Persian (fa) کمبود آب		0

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

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