What percentage of Earth's water is usable?

Answer 1

1% of water is usable in this case .

Since only 3% of water is usable as fresh water, 2% is unavailable in frozen form leaving approximately 1% of the earth's water usable.

Answer 2

Much of the water is locked up in icefields, not easily useable. Much is salt, as in the seas, so not drinkable. Actually, only a very few percent is useable for drinking and other common human purposes.

According to the website below, only 0.3% of the total water available to man is actually usable in its current form.

Answer 3

Only about 2.6% of the earth's water is fresh water, and a lot of this freshwater is in glaciers, ice caps, etc., so less than 1% is accessible to drink.

Answer 4

About 3%. The other 97% is salt-water. Unless you want to include desalination. That 3% is mostly found in springs.

Answer 5

Type your answer here... 1 percent water 2 percent ice

Answer 6

3% of Earth's water is drinkable. 99% of that 3% is locked in glaciers.

The rest of the water is salt water.

Answer 7

welll 10 percent of earths water is fresh water but we can only drink 1 % of that water

Answer 8

1% or less