EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Fresh water makes up under 3% of all water on earth, and nearly 65% of this drinkable water is tied up in glaciers. Rivers, streams, lakes, and dams that hold freshwater contain 1% of potable water while groundwater accounts for 0.3%. Q. What is the percentage of fresh water on earth?

Detailed explanation-2: -In the first bar, notice how only 2.5% of Earth’s water is freshwater-the amount needed for life to survive.

Detailed explanation-3: -Only about three percent of Earth’s water is freshwater. Of that, only about 1.2 percent can be used as drinking water; the rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, or buried deep in the ground. Most of our drinking water comes from rivers and streams.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most of Earth’s fresh water is locked in ice Only a little over 3% of Earth’s water is fresh. Most of that fresh water (68.7%) is frozen in glaciers and ice caps. Two ice sheets, the Antarctica Ice Sheet and the Greenland Ice Sheet, contain more than 99% of the ice on Earth’s surface.

Detailed explanation-5: -The ocean holds about 97 percent of the Earth’s water; the remaining three percent is found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, in rivers and lakes.