How much of the worlds water is freshwater?

Answer 1

Only 3% of the water in the world is freshwater. 2/3 of this water is frozen in glaciers and most of the rest is usually underground.

Only 0.3% of this water is found on the surface, and 7/8 of this water is found in the Great Lakes of North America and in Lake Baikal in Russia.

At any given time about 0.04% of the fresh water can be found in the atmosphere as water vapor.

Answer 2

about 1% is freshwater. However jack all of it is actually able for use. You see, most of the world's fresh water is locked inside glaciers and stuff. Also in places like Antarctica and the such. So the next time you turn your tap on and stuff like, make sure you like don't like screw around with it and stuff like.

Answer 3

Freshwater refers to water that usually contains less amounts of dissolved solids. Generally this amount is defined as lesser than 1000 milligrams of dissolved solids in every liter of water. The major portion of the world's freshwater (99.9%) is to be found in ice fields and glaciers, or underground. Mostly, the small quantity of the freshwater that we are familiar with is to be found in lakes, wetlands, and rivers, in atmosphere, or in soil.

Canada is lucky in terms of availability of freshwater. The percentage of total world population residing in Canada is quite low, about 0.5%. However, according to a calculation, about 9% of the total area in Canada has freshwater. Canada supplies approximately 7% of the total world's supply of renewable freshwater. The rivers of Canada discharge 105 000 m3/s of renewable freshwater. The Great Lakes in Canada occupy about 10% or 87,500 square kilometers of the total 89, 1163 square kilometers of available freshwater in the nation. About 60% of Canada's freshwater usually drains towards the northern part. The area occupied by wetland in Canada is the largest in the world. This country has approximately 25% of the entire world's wetlands.

Canada ranks third in terms of availability of renewable freshwater. The first country in this category is Brazil while the second one is Russia.

Answer 4

about 20% of the world's fresh water but only 9% of the worlds renewable fresh water supply

Answer 5

If Canada has 20% then how can Ontario have 30%. Maybe Ontario has 30% of Canadas freshwater. Seems to make more sense.

Answer 6

Around 2.5% of the world's water is freshwater. However, the majority of this freshwater is stored in glaciers and ice caps, making only a small percentage readily accessible for human use.

Answer 7

one third