{"id":1490,"date":"2025-10-31T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:08:00","slug":"fun-fact-friday-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2025\/10\/fun-fact-friday-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact Friday &#8212; Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week Fun Fact is taken from the NASA website:  <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/kids\/earth\/10-interesting-things-about-water\/\">https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/kids\/earth\/10-interesting-things-about-water\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Almost all Earth\u2019s water is in the oceans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 70% of Earth\u2019s surface is covered by water. Around 97% of that water is found in our oceans. This water is salty. That means about 3% of Earth\u2019s water is fresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The image below is a representation of how water is distributed across the Earth.  The Left image shows the 97%\/3% split and then the other two images shows how fresh water is split.  This image is from USGS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/media\/images\/distribution-water-and-above-earth\">https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/media\/images\/distribution-water-and-above-earth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2025\/10\/EarthsWater-BarChart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"826\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2025\/10\/EarthsWater-BarChart-1024x826.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1491\" style=\"width:665px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2025\/10\/EarthsWater-BarChart-1024x826.png 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2025\/10\/EarthsWater-BarChart-300x242.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2025\/10\/EarthsWater-BarChart-768x620.png 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2025\/10\/EarthsWater-BarChart.png 1336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a good weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Fun Fact is taken from the NASA website: https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/kids\/earth\/10-interesting-things-about-water\/ Almost all Earth\u2019s water is in the oceans. About 70% of Earth\u2019s surface is covered by water. Around 97% of that water is found in our oceans. This water is salty. That means about 3% of Earth\u2019s water is fresh. The image below is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4],"tags":[56,55],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-fact","category-general-water-issues","tag-ugaextension","tag-ugawater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}