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Water that hasn't been to the ocean and won't shut up about it.
means Water low in dissolved salts — the kind found in rivers, lakes, and streams, as opposed to seawater.
from A straightforward compound of 'fresh' and 'water,' dating back to Old English. 'Fresh' here keeps an old sense of 'not salt, not stale' — related to Germanic words for 'new' or 'unspoiled' — rather than the later meaning of 'recently made.' Pair it with water and you get exactly what it says: water that's new, pure, and salt-free, no backstory required.
- global share
- only about 2.5 percent of Earth's water
- locked up
- most of it is frozen in glaciers and ice caps
- usable slice
- less than 1 percent is actually accessible to drink
- college slang
- freshwater fish nickname for naive first-year students