EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: About 97.4% of the total water on earth is in seas and oceans. About 2% water is frozen in glaciers and in polar ice caps. The remaining i.e., only 0.6% is available as freshwater in the liquid form.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is unexpected and somewhat inconceivable that less than three percent of Earth’s water is fresh water. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, most of that three percent is inaccessible. Over 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is found in ground water.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the first bar, notice how only 2.5% of Earth’s water is freshwater-the amount needed for life to survive. The middle bar shows the breakdown of freshwater. Almost all of it is locked up in ice and in the ground. Only a little more than 1.2% of all freshwater is surface water, which serves most of life’s needs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Water covers about 71% of the earth’s surface. 97% of the earth’s water is found in the oceans (too salty for drinking, growing crops, and most industrial uses except cooling). 3% of the earth’s water is fresh.

Detailed explanation-5: -Most of Earth’s fresh water is locked in ice Over 96% of Earth’s water is saline (salty) and found in the ocean. 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.