Fiscal Intermediaries are not service providers. A Fiscal Intermediary is an administrative and fiscal agent that assists you to use the money you get from DMR to pay for the services and supports you need. An FI is not able to make decisions about the amount or type of services you receive.
The ocean holds 97 percent of the Earth's water; the remaining three percent is freshwater found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, or in rivers and lakes The ocean holds 97 percent of the Earth's water; the remaining three percent is freshwater found in glaciers and ice, below the ground, or in rivers and lakes
To break the numbers down, 96.5% of all the Earthâs water is contained within the oceans as salt water, while the remaining 3.5% is freshwater lakes and frozen water locked up in glaciers and the polar ice caps. Of that fresh water, almost all of it takes the form of ice: 69% of it, to be exact. If you could melt all that ice, and the Earthâs surface was perfectly smooth, the sea levels would rise to an altitude of 2.7 km. Illustration showing all of Earthâs water, liquid fresh water, and water in lakes and rivers. Credit: Howard Perlman, USGS/illustraion by Jack Cook, WHOI. Aside from the water that exists in ice form, there is also the staggering amount of water that exists beneath the Earthâs surface.