70%
About 3% of the water on Earth is fresh. Only about .1% of the fresh water is visible on land. About 75% of the fresh water is locked in glaciers and ice caps. Then about 24.9% of the fresh water is underground.
What percentage of earth's fresh water is stored in ice and snow?
65
about 2% of the worlds fresh water are locked up in the polar ice caps....
The number you want is about 70%.
less than 1%
In the Polar ice caps, about 69% of the worlds fresh water is in them.
70% of the worlds fresh water and 90% of the worlds ice is stored in the Antarctic ice sheet.
100% because of hill billies
A bit less than 2% of the worlds water is frozen. Antarctica accounts for about 80% of the worlds fresh water.
The ice sheet that covers 98% of Antarctica holds about 70% of the Earth's store of fresh water.
Glacial ice is almost 100% fresh water. When the ice melts, the fresh water pours into the oceans, making the salinity go down.