This is one amazing visualization by the U.S. Geological Survey : a moving-picture show that gives you a perfect estimation of how much water there is on Earth compared to the solid textile that constitute its principal body . It ’s unfeignedly staggering :
This picture shows the size of a area that would hold all of Earth ’s urine in comparison to the size of the Earth . The downhearted sphere sitting on the United States , reaching from about Salt Lake City , Utah to Topeka , Kansas , has a diameter of about 860 miles ( about 1,385 kilometers ) , with a volume of about 332,500,000 three-dimensional miles ( 1,386,000,000 cubic kilometre ) . The sphere includes all the water in the ocean , seas , frosting crownwork , lakes and rivers as well as groundwater , atmospheric water , and even the piss in you , your dog , and your tomato plant .
Here are some more number from the USGS :
• The intensity of all piss would be about 332.5 million three-dimensional miles ( mi3 ) , or 1,386 million three-dimensional kilometers ( km3 ) . A cubic mile of water be more than 1.1 trillion gallons . A three-dimensional klick of piss equals about 264 billion gallons .
• About 3,100 mi3 ( 12,900 km3 ) of water , mostly in the form of H2O vapor , is in the standard pressure at any one clock time . If it all come down as precipitation at once , the Earth would be covered with only about 1 inch of water .
The 48 contiguous United States receive a full book of about 4 mi3 ( 17.7 km3 ) of precipitation each day .
• Each solar day , 280 mi3 ( 1,170 km3)of water evaporate or transpire into the air .
• If all of the earth ’s water was poured on the United States , it would cover the earth to a depth of 90 miles ( 145 km ) .
• Of the fresh water on Earth , much more is stored in the ground than is usable in lake and rivers . More than 2,000,000 mi3 ( 8,400,000 km3)of fresh water is stored in the Earth , most within one - half naut mi of the surface . But , if you really want to find freshwater , the most is stored in the 7,000,000 mi3 ( 29,200,000 km3 ) of water system found in glaciers and icecap , mainly in the polar regions and in Greenland .
And this is how much fresh body of water there is , equate to Earth and the total amount of water :
Mind ? winded ! [ USGSviaThe Fox Is smuggled ]
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