Three incredible visualizations of water in the United States

Our planet is covered in water — more than 70 percent of the surface. Oceans comprise the vast majority, and the rest is made up of smaller seas, lakes and rivers.

It’s something that’s easy to forget, especially in the United States, where 3.8 million square miles of land masks the millions of miles of streams and rivers. But our country is actually packed full of flowing water bodies that collect precipitation and shuffle it back to the oceans.