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Comments Off on Invaluable: Waters Clean Enough to Drink NEW YORK, New York, March 22, 2021 (ENS) – Clean drinkable water is rare and precious. Of the waters that cover 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, roughly 97 percent is the salt water of the oceans; just three percent is freshwater. Of that, only 1.2 percent can be used as drinking water; the rest is locked up in glaciers, ice caps, and permafrost, or stored too far beneath the surface to be retrieved. Much of the accessible freshwater has become polluted. Boy drinks water from a tap in Puware Shikhar, Udayapur District, Nepal (Photo by Jim Holmes / AusAID) ....