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It does separate liquid fresh water from surface lakes and rivers which makes me believe the middle ball includes reasonably accessible ground water.


My read is that the two smaller spheres are non-exclusive, and that the smallest is included in the 2nd.

The breakout is for comparison: surface freshwater (total) and surface freshwater (lakes and rivers) relatively.


Yes they're pretty clearly subsets of each other. There's a better graphic on this page: https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/sci... Direct link: https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/...

That one actually has percentages on the subsets too for interesting differences like glacier and icecap volume vs ground water (which I think still excludes the kind of deep mantle water mentioned up thread because it's not usably extractable).




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