Dear Wimble,

What Is The Total % Of The Earth’s Water?

Mr. X

Dear Mr. X,

Well, I appreciate your effort with this question. But in all honesty, it’s one of the most difficult questions to answer. You may be wondering why. Read the question again. Carefully now. Ok. Point proven. Now, let the Great Wimble give it a go.

Let’s get some facts straight. For starters, it is estimated that there is 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water on Earth. That’s a lot of water. However, about 98% of that water is in the ocean, and undrinkable at this point in time. Almost 2% is fresh water. Of course that’s still a lot of water.

Now, I’m assuming that in your question, you wanted to know the percentage of water compared to land. Well, approximately 70% of the earths crust is covered in water.

However, if you look at your question another way, you may be interested in know how much of something is in the Earth’s water. However, you didn’t specify what that something is, which makes this question so difficult. In fact, even if you did, it’s nearly impossible to determine how much of that something is actually in the water, due to the fact that there’s so much of it.

Let me just say that there are lots of things in the oceans and lakes. You’ll find lots of pollution, some urine, some dead animals, and millions of other contaminants. However, keep in mind that the amount is small. In fact, if you even had 1 million gallons of urine in the lakes, you’re going to be plenty fine. Nothing to worry about. Of the 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water on earth. 1,000,000 of that is practically nothing.

Hope I was able to help. Glad to hear from you again.

Wimble