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What are the different forms in which water is present on the earth? Where are these forms present and in what proportion?

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Water is distributed across earth most water in earth's atmosphere and crust comes from the world ocean's saline sea water
97.5% of total volume of water is saline and 2.5% water being fresh water

Oceans 96.5%
Ice & Snow 1.76%
Ground water 1.69%
Lakes 0.013%
Atmosphere 0.00096%
Swamps 0.00083%
River 0.00015%
Biological water 0.000081%

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