CyberneticPanda t1_j6glvc2 wrote
Reply to comment by milkytrizzle93 in Eli5....can you dig a well anywhere and hit water...and how did the early ranchers in the West know where to dig for water. Especially in the really dry areas? by pinkshrinkrn
The guy you are responding to is joking, but the whole planet is kind of made of water with land floating on it. It's not just water though; it's rock that is saturated with water. There is a lot of water in the crust, then the upper mantle is pretty dry, but 400 km deep there is a lot of water, possibly more than in all the oceans combined. It's the boundary between the outer mantle and the inner mantle. That transition zone is about 7% of the Earth's mass and probably between 1 and 3% of it is water. That puts it at 1.5 to 4.5 times as much water as there is in the crust.
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