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Water on Earth
- Almost 80 percent of the Earth's surface is covered with water.
- There are 362 trillion gallons of water on Earth.
- About 3 percent of all the water on Earth
is freshwater. But only 1 percent is freshwater we can use for
drinking, bathing and other purposes.
- The other 2 percent of the freshwater
is glacier ice at the North and South Poles. It is frozen and
too far away from where people live to be able to use it.
- About 97 percent of the water on Earth
is saltwater. We cannot drink this water. It's very difficult
and expensive to remove the salt.
- Without water, the Earth would look like the moon!
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