All of EARTH’s WATER in a Single Sphere


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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