The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent contains about 70% of the earth's fresh water.
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The number you want is about 70%.
The number you want are these. Antarctica holds:70% of the earth's fresh water90% of the earth's ice
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.
What percentage of earth's fresh water is stored in ice and snow?
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The fresh water in Greenland and in Antarctica is all stored as ice, making it mostly inaccessible for casual fresh-water use.
The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent contains about 60% of the earth's fresh water, according to Wikipedia.
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about 2% of the worlds fresh water are locked up in the polar ice caps....
More than half, about 70% of the earth's fresh water is stored in Antarctica's ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent. As to why, the answer is that the formation of ice from fresh water is most prolific on the continent of Antarctica. This process has taken place for millenia.