More than 65% of all the fresh water on Earth sits in one part of the world — and it’s almost entirely beyond our reach

Encyclopaedia Britannica reports that “the Antarctic Ice Sheet has a volume of 28 million cubic km (about 6.7 million cubic miles), which represents 70 percent of the total fresh water (including groundwater) in the world.” Seven-tenths of the planet’s fresh water sits in a single ice sheet at the bottom of the world. The temptation [...] The post More than 65% of all the fresh water on Earth sits in one part of the world — and it’s almost entirely beyond our reach appeared first on Space Daily