Geography & Planet Earth

What percent of all the water on Earth is fresh water?

Answer

2.5 percent

And most of that tiny fraction is locked away in glaciers, ice sheets, and deep groundwater — less than 1% of Earth's water is fresh, liquid, and reachable at the surface.

Source: USGS Water Science School

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