About what percentage of freshwater is groundwater? How does this change if glacial ice is excluded?

What will be an ideal response?


About 30 percent of all Earth's freshwater is groundwater. However, when glacial ice is excluded, 96 percent of freshwater occurs as groundwater.

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Fill in the blank with correct word.

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