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water pollution

contamination of water bodies
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water pollution
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Summary

water pollution is a pollution type[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of pollution type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,670 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Main regulatory text: Strafgesetzbuch[3]
  • Subclass of: environmental pollution[4]
  • Commons category: Water pollution[5]
  • Has cause: water pollutant[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Water pollution[7]
  • Commons gallery: Water pollution[8]
  • Described by source: Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature[9], Green Map Icons[10], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11]
  • Partially coincident with: water contamination[12]
  • Has effect: waterborne disease[13]
  • Different from: river overflow[14]
  • Handled, mitigated, or managed by: water treatment[15]
  • Relates to sustainable development goal, target or indicator: Target 3.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals[16]

Why It Matters

water pollution has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 79 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . water-pollution.org.uk. water-pollution.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . globalgoals.org. Retrieved . globalgoals.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 13d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 79
    Exact match → —
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'as', 'ast', 'bcl', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_02500039"
  2. 6w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → water-pollution
    Partially coincident with → water contamination
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Partially coincident with: water contamination, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3dUMHy
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0005012-znecisteni-hydrosfery, h0008104-znecisteni-vod
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0005012-znecisteni-hydrosfery, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259547|batch #259547]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Main regulatory text → Strafgesetzbuch
    Has cause → water pollutant
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by → water treatment
    Instance of → pollution type
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 7659, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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