The total percentage of fresh drinking water on earth is around:

0.3

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Solution

The correct option is A $0.3$ %
On Earth, only 3% of water is fresh water.
Most of the water is in the form of ice caps, glaciers and groundwater, while all lakes, rivers and swamps combined only for a very small part that is 0.3% of the earth's total freshwater reserves.

Hence, option A is correct.

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