All the Water is Not Much Water
The USGS has made a graphic of all the water on Earth if we gathered it all up into giant drops of water …
All Earth’s water, liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers
Spheres showing:
(1) All water (sphere over western U.S., 860 miles in diameter)
(2) Fresh liquid water in the ground, lakes, swamps, and rivers (sphere over Kentucky, 169.5 miles in diameter), and
(3) Fresh-water lakes and rivers (sphere over Georgia, 34.9 miles in diameter).
Via USGS.
30 May 2012
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And the Great Lakes contain 1/5th of all that fresh water.
Wow… Very interesting… The kids will enjoy reading this!!!