All the accessible fresh water in the world - with caption

There is 4.3917 million cubic kilometres of accessible fresh water. If you brought it all together in a single drop, it would form a sphere 203 km across.

 

There is 1,408.7 million cubic kilometres of water on Earth, but 97.25% of it is sea water. All the water in the world, including sea water, would form a sphere 1,391 km across.

 

There is 38.7 million cubic kilometres of non-ocean water:

Ice caps and glaciers: 74.93%

Deep groundwater (750-4,000 metres): 13.69%

Shallow groundwater (<750 metres): 10.85%

Lakes: 0.32%

Soil moisture: 0.17%

Atmosphere: 0.034%

Rivers: 0.0044%

Biosphere: 0.0016%

 

Shallow ground water, lakes, rivers and soil moisture makes up 11.35% of non-ocean water and just 0.31% of all water.

 

Water data:

Elizabeth Kay Berner and Robert A. Berner, 1987, The Global Water Cycle: Geochemistry and Environment, Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J, Table 2.1, p 13

 

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