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Is the water in glaciers drinkable?

Dear student

The water in glacier and ice caps is present in the form of ice. Though it is one of the source of fresh water, it is not available for drinking purposes as it is not present in liquid state, but in solid state as ice. 

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Your question here is only half complete..
        If you mean whether melting glacier ice and drinking is safe, it is very safe because all climbers and mountaineers do that for drinking in their base camps.
       If you mean, whether it is safe to drink the water melting from glaciers and flowing as rivulets to form streams and then join rivers then it is always safe to drink water from bigger streams rather than small rivulets because sometimes mounatin people use small streams for cleaning puposes but they never touch largers streams..
 
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