Understanding 1 TMC of Water: Volume and Comparisons

One trillion cubic metres (tmc) is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 cubic metres of water. This is equivalent to:

- 1,000 cubic kilometres

- 1,000,000,000,000 litres

- 264 billion gallons

- 35.3 trillion cubic feet

- 1.36 million Olympic-size swimming pools

- The approximate volume of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States

- The annual flow of the Amazon River

- About 1/3 of the total volume of water in the atmosphere

- About 1/500 of the total volume of water on Earth