Answer: Fresh water mainly comes from lakes rivers or a shallow zone beneath the earths surface and most of the water on earth is salt water which is found in the oceans. While the largest percentage of fresh water is from ice caps and glaciers. Fresh water is also found in rivers lakes and earths surface in aquifers.
describe the distribution of water on earth. where is most of the fresh water located?

Most water in Earth's atmosphere and crust comes from the World Ocean's saline seawater while fresh water accounts for nearly 1% of the total. Because the oceans that cover roughly 71% of the area of Earth reflect blue light Earth appears blue from space and is often referred to as the blue planet and the Pale Blue Dot. An estimated 1.5 to 11 times the amount of water in the oceans may be found hundreds of kilometers deep within the Earth's interior although not in liquid form.

Mon Feb 27 2006 13:30:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) · The origin of water on Earth is the subject of a body of research in the fields of planetary science astronomy and astrobiology. Earth is unique among the rocky planets in the Solar System in that it is the only planet known to have oceans of liquid water on its surface. Liquid water which is necessary for life as we know it continues to exist on the surface of Earth because the planet is ...

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