https://glade.org/water-in-infographics/
https://www.usbr.gov/mp/arwec/water-facts-ww-water-sup.html#:~:text=0.5% of the earth's water,for each person on earth.
Water Facts - Worldwide Water Supply
- 0.5% of the earth's water is available fresh water.
- 0.3% is usable by humans
- 97% of the earth's water is found in the oceans (too salty for drinking, growing crops, and most industrial uses except cooling).
- 320 million cubic miles of water in the oceans
- Water covers about 71% of the earth's surface.
- 326 million cubic miles of water on the planet
- 3% of the earth's water is fresh.
- 2.5% of the earth's fresh water is unavailable: locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under the earth's surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.
- If the world's water supply were only 100 liters (26 gallons), our usable water supply of fresh water would be only about 0.003 liter (one-half teaspoon).
- In actuality, that amounts to an average of 8.4 million liters (2.2 million gallons) for each person on earth.
- This supply is continually collected, purified, and distributed in the natural hydrologic (water) cycle.