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Watter in three states: liquid watter, solit watter isiceancloodsiscondensedwatter vapour.

Watter(orwattir) is a commonchemical substancethat is needit bi aw kent furms olife.[1] Forordnar,watterrefers anerlie til itsliquidfurm orstate,but the substance haes asolitstate,ice,an agaseousstate,watter vapouran aw. Aboot 1,460teratonnes(Tt) o watter haps 71% o theYird's surface, maistlie in oceans an ither mukkil watter bodies, wi 1.6% o watter ablo the grund inaquifersan 0.001% in theliftasvapour,cloods(shapit o solit an liquid watter pairtikils suspendit in the lift), anpreceepitation.[2]Sum o the Yird's watter is inheld in man-makkit an naitural objeks naur the Yirds's surface sicaswatter touers,ainimalanplauntbodies, manufactured products, an hain'd fuid.

Sautwatteroceanshauds 97% o surface watter,glaciersan polarice kaipshauds 2.4%, an ither laund surface watter sic asriversanlochshauds 0.6%.

Watter is thechemical substancewi thechemical formulaH2O:aemoleculeo watter haes twahydrogenatomscovalentliebondittil the aeoxygenatom.

  1. "Archived copy".Archived fraethe originalon 20 Mey 2007.Retrieved9 Februar2008.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. Water Vapor in the Climate SystemArchived2007-03-20 at theWayback Machine,Special Report, [AGU], December 1995 (linked 4/2007).Vital WaterArchived2009-07-08 at theWayback MachineUNEP.