From 2 data sources:
- How Much Water is There on Earth? By Water Science School November 13, 2019 − US Geological Survey
- AQUASTAT - FAO’s Global Information System on Water and Agriculture
David McCandless (design & research) and Miriam Quick (research) produced a Data Virtualization here (it’s not under free license) with:
- Total Water
- Oceans 96,5 %
- salt groundwater 1 %
- Fresh Water 2,5 %
- Atmosphere 0,04 %
- Groundwater 30 %
- Lakes 0,3%
- Rivers 0,01%
- Ground Ice 0,9 %
- Organisms 0,03 %
- Soil 0,05 %
- Swamps 0,03 %
- Ice Caps & Snow 69 %
Used by Humans is 0,03 % from Groundwater, Lakes, Rivers:
- Industry 4 %
- Reservoir evaporation 11 %
- Urban uses 2 %
- Agriculture 73 %
- to dilute pollution 11 %
Compiled dataset:
- KIB - Water World (public).xlsx (54.8 KB)
- KIB - Water World (public) - Datasheet.csv (15.4 KB)
Read also
- Hack₂O intro / explication
- [EU / EEA report] The state of Europe's water: less and less and more polluted
- Qui fait la carte et qui fait le menu des eaux?
I’m sharing this because:
- This can be useful as background knowledge for others
- The data can be used as a basis for other more advanced work and contexts - for example, distribution by continent, geographical area, types of human activity, etc.
- As we use free licences here, perhaps you (or I) would make good use of this base to produce free material.