Central Valley Project, a Common card

The Central Valley Project is a federal power and water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
From the Wikipedia article

Rarity: Common
Domain: Science
ATK: 99
DEF: 99
Power: 198
Wikipedia reads a year: 13,000

Power 198 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.

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Central Valley Project quiz: 3 questions

Three questions on the Central Valley Project card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.

Find the missing word
Many CVP water users are ______ by the Central Valley Project Water Association.
Answer
represented. Many CVP water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association. From the Central Valley Project article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Periodic table. Periodic table 3,400,000 · Hannah Arendt 760,000 · Cathode ray tube 260,000 · Central Valley Project 13,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.

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The facts on the card

The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.

It was devised in 1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley, by regulating and storing water in reservoirs in the northern half of the state, and transporting it to the water-poor San Joaquin Valley and its surroundings by means of a series of canals, aqueducts and pump plants, some of which are shared with the California State Water Project.
Many CVP water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association.
In addition to water storage and regulation, the system has a hydroelectric capacity of over 2,000 megawatts, and provides recreation and flood control with its twenty dams and reservoirs.

Why it is Common

Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Central Valley Project article was read about 13,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 99 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.

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