[tet68]

It contains around 23,000 cubic metres of fresh water - about 20 per cent of the world’s fresh water and 90 per cent of Russia’s.

Some how that figure is suspect to me.

Reminds me of Niagara Falls.

Niagara Falls?
Sloooooooly I turn, step by step......

[Lawgvr1955]

Some how that figure is suspect to me.

I agree. 23,000 cubic meters isn't much water.

[elcid1970]

“NIAGARA FALLS!! Closer I come, inch by inch....!”

;^)

Anyway, I hope Lake Baikal doesn’t suffer the same fate as the doomed Aral Sea.

[Lawgvr1955]

The idiot reporter probably meant cubic kilometer. One apparently doesn’t have to understand math to be a reporter.

[Old Professer]

23 000 (cubic meters) = 6 075 957.2 US gallons; to put that in perspective it is about 9.4 Olympic size swimming pools.

[SunkenCiv]

23,000 cubic metres of fresh water - about 20 per cent of the world's fresh water and 90 per cent of Russia's.

Yeah, that isn't even close to right. :') It's 23,000 cubic kilometers of water (estimate). The Amazon basin has about half the fresh water in the world (and neither figure counts freshwater ice in Antarctica and Greenland, if memory serves), so the 90 per cent of Russia's water is probably too low?