When you turn on the faucet, where does the water come from?

What is your name?

Abigail and Samuel are having a debate. Abigail says that there is about the same amount of fresh surface water as there is fresh groundwater. Samuel disagrees. Is Abigail's statement true or false?

• True

• False

The majority of the liquid freshwater on Earth is water that people have to dig to find.

• True
• False

10% of the liquid freshwater on Earth is on the surface of the Earth.

• True
• False

Rivers and lakes might look big, but they only hold a few percent of the total freshwater on Earth.

• True
• False

2. What does the graph tell us about water usage in Pineville?

• People use more than twice as much surface water as they do groundwater.
• People use equal amounts of surface water and groundwater.
• People only use water from a lake or a river.
• People use slightly more surface water than groundwater.

It is possible for a city to only use groundwater and use no surface water at all.

• True
• False

Pineville does not get all ten million gallons of water it needs each day from just surface water and groundwater. They have to use other sources too.

• True
• False

Different cities use different amounts of water, but all cities use at least some surface water and some groundwater.

• True
• False

Most freshwater is groundwater. That’s why all cities use groundwater.

• True
• False