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Do glaciers contain salty water

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What percentage of the earth's water is salty?

About 90%


Why isn't water salty?

Some water is salty. The ocean and some lakes are salt water. It depends on how many minerals are dissolved in the water.


What precious resource do glaciers contain?

They contain the earths large amount of fresh water


What do rivers ponds streams glaciers and icebergs all contain?

Water


What type of water does sea water contain?

It contains a lot of salty water with chlorine mixed.


What area has the most water?

Oceans contain most of the world's water.Frozen icecaps and glaciers contain most of the world's fresh water.


Why is lake water not salty?

it is not salty because in the ocean there are rocks which contain salt and animals such as fish poo and pee in the water and in the lakes none of that happens


How much of the water that evaporates from a salty ocean is freshwater?

Vapors are contain practically pure water.


Do glaciers contain saltwater?

Glaciers are formed from the compaction of snow, therefore they are strictly a fresh water formation.


Is a pond salty or fresh?

Although pond water can contain fresh water, some ponds also contain brackish or salt water.


Why is the most earths water salty?

earth is mostly covered with oceans, which may contain the carbonates and chlorides deposits which make it's water salty. On continents rock salt(Halite) is abundant which make the water saline.


Why is most of earth salty water?

earth is mostly covered with oceans, which may contain the carbonates and chlorides deposits which make it's water salty. On continents rock salt(Halite) is abundant which make the water saline.