Iceland: Water

Total Water Volume:  170 billion cubic meters (bcm) – or about 4.49 sextillion gallons.  (The World Factbook – Iceland)

• Total water volume includes surface water (166.6 bcm or 44.01 trillion gallons) and ground water (3.4 bcm or 898.2 billion gallons).
• Annual Precipitation (rain and snow)*: 1,052.14 mm | 41.42 inches. (Current Results – Iceland Weather)
  *Based on the average of seven geographically dispersed cities and regions across Iceland.

• Potable or rechargeable water supply for each Iceland resident: 492,192 cubic meters (130.02 million gallons).
• Virtually all of Iceland’s water is potable. About 95% of Iceland’s drinking water comes from springs.
• About 3,600 cubic kilometers (951 trillion gallons) of water in the form of ice is contained in Iceland’s glaciers. (University of Iceland – Institute of Earth Sciences, Glaciers in Iceland)