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The ice sheet that covers the Antarctic continent is all fresh water. According to its Wikipedia entry:
"It covers an area of almost 14 million square km (5.4 million sq. miles) and contains 26.5 million cubic km of ice (6.36 million cubic miles)."
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe estimate is that this amount of fresh water is about 70% of the total available on earth.
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What is the water pH of antarcticas water?
The same as normal water. 7.
How much fresh water is stored in ice caps?
about 2% of the worlds fresh water are locked up in the polar ice caps....
What percentage of world's freshwater is stored as glacial ice?
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 is most of the earths fresh water locked up in?
Glaciers. Or frozen ice caps.
Where is most of the freshwater of earth locked up?
About 70% of Earth's fresh water is found in glaciers and icecaps
How is fresh water both a renewable and a limited resource?
Its renewable because the ecosystem collects and purifies the fresh water. Its limited because the earth is only made up of 3% of fresh water and most of the other half is locked up in ice at the Poles.
What percentage of the earth's water is fresh water?
only 3% is fresh water
Why can we not use all of the earth's fresh water?
We can't use all of the Earth's fresh water, because much is locked away as ice, notably at the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and in the many glaciers in certain mountain ranges.
What is the majiruty of the earth fresh water stored?
Only about 3% of Earth's water is fresh, and of that, 2/3 is locked up (albeit temporarily) in ice sheets and the polar ice caps. The remainder is salt water. So roughly 1% of the fresh water is readily available, though perhaps inaccessible in lakes etc.
Where in the world is water always ice?
Mostly at the North and South poles or rather, the Arctic and Antarctic. 90% of the world's fresh water is locked up in ice at the Antarctic.
Where is most of earths freshwater supply?
Most of Earth's fresh water is locked up in glaciers. "Supply" would reference rivers and lakes.
What is the percentage of water is fresh water?
About 3 percent (2.75%) of the total water on Earth is fresh water, and as much as 75% of that is locked up as ice in glaciers and polar caps. Most of the rest is ground water. The water vapor in the air constitutes 4 times as much water as all of the surface freshwater on the planet (0.04 % vs 0.01 %).
