How much of earth contains water?

Question

In a percentage form. Also, what percentage of that is water that we can use?

Answer 1

70% of earth is water. In that 2.7% is freshwater but of the 2.7 only .7 is in the form of liquid water the rest is stored as glaciers

Answer 2

70% of earth is water. In that 2.7% is useable freshwater. and only 23% of freshwater can be used as drinking water

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All the Water in the World:

97% is salt water (oceans, seas)

slightly less than 3% is fresh water (polar ice caps, groundwater, rivers, lakes, wetlands, etc.)

All the Fresh Water in the World:

77% polar ice;

22% groundwater

1%rivers, lakes, wetlands, etc.

Fresh Water People Can Use

23% can be used for drinking water from:

--------22% groundwater

--------less 1% rivers, lakes, wetlands, etc.

Answer 3

70%, 50% we can use

Answer 4

25% of the planets surface is land

75%of the surface is water and it is rising

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97%of the Earths water is salt

fresh water is only 3% of all the Earths water

most of it is beyond out reach

now much ice is melting and running into the seas fresh water lost for ever.

STORAGE or Location of % of the fresh water

ice and glaziers 74%

groundwater 800 meters + 13.5 %

groundwater less than 800meters 11.o%

Lakes 0.3%

soils 0.006%

Atmospheric in circulation 0.0035%

rivers 0.03%

frozen land or permafrost is not included and represent an unavailable storage of 40%

so of the 3% about 11.6 ,is easily available to us ,in rivers, lakes and ground water surface aquifers,more and more of this is becoming contaminated

Answer 5

The earth is covered in about 70% of water.  Fresh water is about 1%.