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flood control

methods used to reduce or prevent the detrimental effects of flood waters
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flood control

Summary

flood control ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (277 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • flood control is a type of water management[2].
  • flood control is a type of risk management[3].
  • flood control is a type of weather protection[4].
  • flood control's Commons category is recorded as Flood protection[5].
  • flood control's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Flood control[6].
  • flood control's used by is recorded as flood control structure[7].
  • flood control's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject Climate change[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include water management[2], risk management[3], and weather protection[4].

Use and Application

flood control's used by is recorded as it structure[7].

Why It Matters

flood control ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (277 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 58 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

risk management

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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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. 8d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → flood-control
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: flood-control, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289925705|flood control (#289925705)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's ta"
  2. 4w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Google knowledge graph id → /g/1hc0glwp3
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q6008760 */"
  3. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002547-protipovodnova-ochrana
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0002547-protipovodnova-ochrana, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259490|batch #259490]]"
  4. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → water management, risk management, weather protection
    Used by → flood control structure
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536030005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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