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About 3% of all the water is fresh water, and about 69% of this 3% are in icecaps or glacier, 30% is ground water, 0.3% in surface water
This might be a trick question, but the answer is all of it. All the water on the earth is available for use by humans. Most of it is sea water, and with that salt in it, there are limits to what we can do with it. We can cool things with it, which we do on a limited scale with nuclear power plants that are parked on the shores of the ocean. We can also take the salt out of the water and drink it. Desalination plants are sprinkled on the shores of oceans here and there. We can sail on it for fun and for profit. Ships usually float on the stuff, and we can move large quantities of goods over the vast oceans in a fairly economical manner. Tidal forces generate electric power in limited applications. We also harvest the bounty of the sea and use the water indirectly in that way.
There are polar ice caps as well as local weather associated deposits. The stuff at the poles is usable, but not in an economical way. As for the stuff closer to us, we can use that snow and ice for recreation. We can ski, snowboard, snowmobile, sled and just have fun in the snow. Skating is possible on ice. The local snow and ice melt to refresh our streams and rivers and lakes as well as the ground water we can't see or often forget about. We sometimes harness flowing water to generate power. And we use the fresh water in our homes and businesses for all the reasons you can think of. All water on the planet is available for human use, but some (most) of it has limits on what can be done with it based on economics. (Hint: don't start a bottled water company advertising water from the north pole and then try to go up there to set up a bottling plant, lay in a pipeline down to here, or transport the stuff by boat to a seaside packing plant. It will be too expensive to do so.)
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How much world water is available for human use?
about 1% of the worlds water is available for our use the rest is either frozen or salt water
How much of the world's water available for human use?
for a human. the human supply water usage is 3%. ONLY 3 PERCENT IS DRINKABLE TO HUMANS
How much water is available for human use?
about 1% of the worlds water is available for our use the rest is either frozen or salt water
How much of the world's freshwater is available for human use?
2%
How much water available for human ues?
Less than one precent of the earths water/
How much of the world's water is available for human use 97 percent or 23 percent or 7 percent or less than 1 percent?
97%
Who much the world water is available for human use?
98 percent is salt water, so we can not drink that. So then you have 2 percent. But 1 percent of that is in glaciers. So we have access to about 1 percent.
How much of the world's fresh water is available for human use?
for a human. the human supply water usage is 3%. ONLY 3 PERCENT IS DRINKABLE TO HUMANS
Who much percent average water in human brain?
If you mean "How much percentage of water does a human brain have?", the answer is about 77-78%.
How much water is a human made up of?
65% water
How much of Earth's surface is covered with salty water that makes up the oceans and seas?
70% percent of the earth is covered in salt water, and 2.5% of freshwater but less then 1% of that fresh water is available for human use!!
How much of Earth's water supply is NOT available for drinking water?
0.03%
