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幻灯片3（发生） Of all the water on earth, it is estimated the 99.4% is surface water. Groundwater occurs only as 0.6% of the total. However, of the vast amount of surface water, most of it is in the form of saltwater in oceans and inland seas (97%). Fresh surface water accounts for only 2% of the total volume of water. By excluding saltwater from the above accounting, the proportion between surface and subsurface freshwater is changed to 78% and 22%, respectively. Most of the surface freshwater is in the form of ice locked in ice-caps and glaciers in polar regions.The fresh surface water resources t