<p>Of the three percent of the water that is not in the ocean, about 69 percent is locked up in glaciers and icecaps. Ninety percent of that frozen water is in Antarctica and about nine percent covers Greenland. </p><p>Of the remaining freshwater, 30 percent of it is groundwater, captured below our feet.</p>

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<img src="https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/bs4/img/flag.png" alt="U.S. flag" width="25" height="17"><h2 dir="ltr">The ocean holds about <span dir="ltr">97 percent of the Earth's water</span>; the remaining three percent is found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, in rivers and lakes.</h2><figure><img src="https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceanwater.jpg" alt="The ocean" title="the ocean" width="476" height="186"><figcaption dir="auto">Of the world's total water supply of about 332 million cubic miles of water, about 97 percent is found in the ocean.</figcaption></figure><p dir="ltr">The ocean holds about 97 percent of the Earth's water; the remaining three percent is <a href="http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html" dir="ltr">distributed in many different places</a>, including glaciers and ice, below the ground, in rivers and lakes, and in the atmosphere.</p><p dir="ltr">According to the <a href="https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt" dir="ltr">U.S. Geological Survey</a>, there are over <abbr title="1,386,000,000 cubic kilometers" dir="ltr">332,519,000 cubic miles</abbr> of water on the planet. A cubic mile is the volume of a cube measuring one mile on each side. Of this vast volume of water, NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center estimates that <abbr title="1,335,000,000 cubic kilometers" dir="ltr">321,003,271 cubic miles</abbr> is in the ocean. </p><h6 dir="ltr"><strong dir="ltr">Search</strong> Our Facts</h6><h6 dir="ltr">Get <strong dir="ltr">Social</strong>  </h6>

The ocean holds 97 percent of the Earth's water; the remaining three percent is freshwater found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, or in rivers and lakes

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<p>The ocean holds about 97 percent of the Earth's water; the remaining three percent is <a href="http://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthwherewater.html">distributed in many different places </a>, including glaciers and ice, below the ground, in rivers and lakes, and in the atmosphere. </p>

<p>According to the <a href="https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/rt">U.S. Geological Survey </a>, there are over <abbr>332,519,000 cubic miles </abbr>of water on the planet. A cubic mile is the volume of a cube measuring one mile on each side. Of this vast volume of water, NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center estimates that <abbr>321,003,271 cubic miles </abbr>is in the ocean. </p>

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