New Hampshire's House of Representatives endorsed marijuana legalization Wednesday, but that doesn't mean the state will be the third to legalize pot. Rep. Steve Vaillancourt, a Republican sponsoring the legalization bill, tells U.S. News the state will not adopt his proposal in 2014.
The ocean holds 97 percent of the Earth's water; the remaining three percent is freshwater found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, or in rivers and lakes. Of the world's total water supply of about 326 million cubic miles of water, over 96 percent is saline, found in the ocean.
The Earthâs surface is 70% water. Of that 70% only 2.5% is drinkable, fresh water. Nearly 70% of that drinkable water is frozen in the icecaps of Antarctica and Greenland. The other 29% is locked in deep underground aquifers not accessible to humans. That leaves us with less than 1% of accessible fresh water on Earth. These sources come in the form of lakes, rivers, and precipitation run off. That means of all of the water Earth has, both fresh and salt water, only 0.007% is accessible for humans to drink. I thought that it would be an interesting idea for this issue to go over the largest sources of fresh water on the globe for our top ten list.