Most of freshwater is unattainable why can't we use it?

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Lawrence Faulkner

Physics

25 April, 14:19

Most of freshwater is unattainable why can't we use it?

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Porter Small · Answer 1

2.5% of the earth's fresh water is unavailable: locked up in glaciers, polar ice caps, atmosphere, and soil; highly polluted; or lies too far under the earth's surface to be extracted at an affordable cost.

Dyer · Answer 2

Over 68 percent of the fresh water on Earth is found in icecaps and glaciers, and just over 30 percent is found in ground water. Only about 0.3 percent of our fresh water is found in the surface water of lakes, rivers, and swamps.

Explanation:

In fact, more than two-thirds of the planet's freshwater is not even liquid-it's frozen in glaciers.