Why is there shortage of water even though it occcpies about 71 %of the earth's surface?
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yes most of the earth is covered by water but only 3percent of total water is fresh and other is saline water which means that ocean or sea water is out of 3percent maximum fresh water and while the concept of water stress is relatively new, it is the difficulty of obtaining sources of fresh water for use during a period of time and may result in further depletion and deterioration of available water resources.
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because all the 71 % is in the form of salty water present in oceans and seas. so It cannot be utilised for daily purposes like bathing ,drinking etc. so for clean water there is only 3 % clean. water .out of that 3% ,2% is the form of glaciers so. only 1% is the form of clean water in lakes ,rivers etc
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