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fresh water

naturally occurring water with low concentrations of dissolved salts
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Summary

fresh water ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,506 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Followed by: brackish water[2]
  • Subclass of: liquid water[3]
  • Part of: river[4], pond[5], freshwater lake[6]
  • Commons category: Freshwater[7]
  • Opposite of: brine[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Fresh water[9]
  • Described by source: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10]
  • Equivalent class: http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/resource#FreshWater[11], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=FreshWater[12]
  • Studied by: aquatic science[13]

Why It Matters

fresh water has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Q141247525. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Suggested Upper Merged Ontology. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . 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. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → liquid water
    Equivalent class → http://borhan-onto.ir/ontology/resource#FreshWater, https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=FreshWater"
  2. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 87
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'azb', 'bcl', 'be', 'bew', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'b
    Bncf thesaurus id → 80589
    Exact match → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002011"
  3. 11w ago · Tiziana Deluca · 2026-07-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Bncf thesaurus id → 80589
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Bncf thesaurus id: Q102192"
  4. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Fresh water
    Subclass of → —
    Opposite of → brine
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 3793, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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