783 million of the 7 billion people on the planet
do not have access to clean water
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Approximately
70% of the Earth’s surface is covered with
water, although only 2.5% of that is freshwater
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Middle Tennessee State
University, Murfreesboro, TN, USA
Conflict of interest: The author has declared no conflicts of interest
for this article. Of that freshwater, 68% is bound up in glaciers
and ice caps, and 30% is underground, leaving only
2% of the freshwater resources of the planet readily
available on the surface