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What percent of all the water on the planet is fresh water?

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What percentage of the earth water is fresh water available for use by living organism?

three percent of all the earths water is fresh water


What percentage of earths water is fresh water available for use by living organisms?

three percent of all the earths water is fresh water


What precent of water is fresh?

All freshwater on earth (ice caps, glaciers, rivers and lakes) equal about 3 percent of the worlds fresh water. as far as liquid fresh water goes it is below 1 percent.


What percent of fresh water is in an iceberg?

Approximately 68.7% of Earth's fresh water is stored in icebergs. This makes icebergs one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet.


Why isn't all fresh water usable?

All fresh water isn't usable because 97 percent of the water is found in the oceans as salt water. About two percent of the earth's water is stored in glaciers , ice caps, and snowy mountain ranges. That leaves only 1 percent of fresh water that is readily available to us for our daily water supply needs


Why isn't fresh water usable?

All fresh water isn't usable because 97 percent of the water is found in the oceans as salt water. About two percent of the earth's water is stored in glaciers , ice caps, and snowy mountain ranges. That leaves only 1 percent of fresh water that is readily available to us for our daily water supply needs


What percent of the earth water is salt?

Approximately 97.5 percent of all the water on Earth is salt water. Of the remaining 2.5 percent that is fresh, about 70 percent exists as ice.


What is the percentage of water from Antarctica is fresh?

The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent contains about 60% of the earth's fresh water, according to Wikipedia.


Pie graph that has 97 persent 2 percent and 1 percent?

The pie graph is showing all the water on earth. 97% represents the amount that is salt water. 2% represents frozen fresh water. 1% represents liquid fresh water.


Where is almost two thirds of earth fresh water located?

According to the Fresh Water entry in Wikipedia:- Out of all the water on Earth, only 2.75 percent is fresh water, including 2.05 percent frozen in Glaciers, 0.68 percent as Groundwaterand 0.011 percent of it as Surface_waterin lakes and rivers.Freshwater lakes, most notably Lake_Baikalin Russia and the Great_Lakes_(North_Americain North America, contain seven-eighths of this fresh surface water. Swamps have most of the balance with only a small amount in rivers, most notably the Amazon_River.The atmosphere contains 0.04% water. In areas with no fresh water on the ground surface, fresh water derived from precipitation may, because of its lower density, overlie saline ground water in lenses or layers.Most of the world's fresh water is frozen in Ice_sheets.


What percent of the earths water can you drink?

only 1% of all the water on earth can living creatures drink. Only about 3% of earths water is fresh water at all!!!!