Right bar: Only the portion of freshwater residing in surface water (rivers and lakes, etc), snow and ice, and relatively-shallow ground water.Left bar: All water, freshwater and saline, on, in, and above the Earth.If you check back in a million years, no doubt these numbers will be different! You may know that the water cycle describes the movement of Earth's water, so realize that the chart and table below represent the presence of Earth's water at a single point in time. Earth's water is (almost) everywhere: above the Earth in the air and clouds, on the surface of the Earth in rivers, oceans, ice, plants, in living organisms, and inside the Earth in the top few miles of the ground.įor an estimated explanation of where Earth's water exists, look at this bar chart. You've heard the phrase, and for water, it really is true.
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