This illustration shows the size of the sphere that would hold
all of Earth’s water in comparison to the size of the Earth. The sphere
includes all the water in the earth’s oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and
rivers as well as all the groundwater, atmospheric water, and even the
water in you, your dog, and your tomato plant!
Really hard to believe and the amazing truth in this is only 4% of that water sphere is available for drinking.Kind of hard to digest but we live on a balance.
The blue sphere sitting on the United States, reaching from about
Salt Lake City, Utah to Topeka, Kansas, has a diameter of about 860
miles (about 1,385 kilometers), with a volume of about 332,500,000 cubic
miles (1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers).
Source: USGS – Water Science for Schools


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