The only liquid water around Antarctica is the mineral-rich sea water of the Southern Ocean.
In the American bases at McMurdo Station and Palmer station, fresh, liquid water is produced using a desalination technique and costs about US$1.00 per gallon, which is paid by the National Science Foundation, the American representative in the Antarctic.
At the South Pole, fresh, liquid water is produced by melting and purifying glacial ice.
None. Antarctica is a continent, 98% of which is covered by ice.
Antarctica has the least availability of fresh water, as the majority of its water is locked up in ice. The continent is considered a desert due to its low precipitation levels.
70 % is water and 90% is ice
Water is abundant by melting glacial ice or by desalinating sea water.
Antarctica's fresh water cache is about 70% of all the fresh water on earth -- frozen in its ice sheet that covers 98% of the continent.
Antarctica's ice sheet contains about 70% of the earth's fresh water.
There isn't much drinking water because almost all of the water is frozen. The snow can be thawed to give fresh water. The rainfall in Antarctica is very low.
Seventy one percent of earth's surface is water -- salt water. The ice sheet in Antarctica holds about seventy percent of earth's fresh water.
It is estimated that about 70% of the earth's fresh water is frozen in Antarctica's ice sheet.
If you are in the water in Antarctica, generally, you'd step onto the beach to get out of the water.
Believe it or not, with all of that frozen water around, Antarctica is considered to be desert.
Antarctica receives little rainfall in 1 year. About 35-50 centimeters of water is received in Antarctica. It may sound strange, but Antarctica is also considered a desert, a landscape/ region that receives little or no precipitation.