Q. What percentage of the world’s freshwater is stored as glacial ice ?
Answer: 75%
Notes: Presently, 10 percent of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice, including glaciers, ice caps, and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Glacierized areas cover over 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles). Glaciers store about 75 percent of the world's fresh water.

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