OCEANS AND COUNTRIES
INDIAN TRANSPORTATION COMMUNICATION NATIONAL PARKS AND SANCTUARIES
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Russia
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Africa
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South America
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Australia
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brazil has highest freshwater resources in the world which is accounts for approximately 12% of the world’s freshwater resources. It is just because Amazon region this country contains 70% of the total freshwater. Russia has second largest freshwater reserve which is approximately 1/5 of freshwater in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Only about 0.3 percent of our freshwater is found in the surface water of lakes, rivers, and swamps. The Antarctic ice sheet holds about 90 percent of the fresh water that exists on the Earth’s surface. The ice sheet covers approximately 8.7 million square miles.
Detailed explanation-3: -The largest reserves of fresh water on the Earth’s surface is in North America. The American Great Lakes account for 21% of the Earth’s surface fresh water.