You can find usable fresh water anywhere water exists. Even the waters of the Dead Sea or the Great Salt Lake will yield fresh water if distilled, and the easiest way to do so is with a solar distiller. With a solar distiller, you can collect fresh water from a mud puddle.
Natural sources of fresh water are lakes, springs, rivers, and streams. In cities and towns, water is taken from these sources and purified before sent out in the water system of the town.
Rivers, Lakes, and in glaciers.
3%
3%
Yes. About 3% of the water on Earth is "fresh water" (not salt water), but 2/3 of that is locked up in sea ice, glaciers, and ice caps. So about 1% is "available fresh water" and most of that exists in underground aquifers, which is not always renewed as fast as it is used. Only about 1/100 of 1 percent of the total fresh water is present in springs, rivers, lakes, and swamps.
Earth's freshwater can be found in many places. More than 68 percent is in icecaps and glaciers, 30 percent in ground water, and 0.3 percent in rivers, lakes, and swamps.
Earth is made up of about 70 percent water, but less than 3 percent of that water is fresh water. Fresh water is found in ice caps, glaciers, streams, and rivers.
It is found in salt water, I just found a lot of them in Florida yesterday (1-3-08), on Pensacola beach.
~71% of the earth is covered with water, of that ~97% is salt and ~3% is fresh (2% of fresh water is frozen, only about 1% is available)
Water is considered as a scarce resource as fresh water occupies only 3% of total water found on earth.
Water is considered as a scarce resource as fresh water occupies only 3% of total water found on earth.
not all water on earth is fresh its 60% fresh and 3% salty
3% of the earths water, is fresh water
only 3% is fresh water