DISTRUBUTION OF WATER ON

EARTH
The distribution of water on the Earth’s
surface is extremely uneven. Only 3% of
water on the surface is fresh; the
remaining 97% resides in the ocean. Of
freshwater, 69% resides in glaciers, 30%
underground, and less than 1% is located
in lakes, rivers and swamps. Looked at
another way, only one percent of the water
on the Earth’s surface is usable by
humans, and 99% of the usable quantity is
situated underground.
Groundwater (ground water) is the waterpresent beneath
Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock
formations. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is
called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water.
Surface water is water on the surface of the planet such as in
a stream, river, lake, wetland, or ocean. It can be contrasted
with groundwater and atmospheric water.
Non-saline surface water is replenished by precipitation and by
recruitment from ground-water. It is lost
through evaporation,seepage into the ground where it becomes
ground-water, used by plants for transpiration, extracted by
mankind for agriculture, living, industry etc. or discharged to the
sea where it becomes saline.
A swamp is a wetland that is forested.Many swamps occur
along large rivers where they are critically dependent upon
natural water level fluctuations. Other swamps occur on the
shores of large lakes.Some swamps have hammocks, or dry-
land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation
that tolerates periodic inundation.The two main types of
swamp are "true" or swamp forests and "transitional" or shrub
swamps. In the boreal regions of Canada, the word swamp is
colloquially used for what is more correctly termed
abog or muskeg. The water of a swamp may be fresh
water, brackish water or seawater
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