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Water is stored in the following places: The lithosphere (the solid outer crust and upper mantle). In oceanic crust it is stored within the rock structure which it is composed of and in continental crust it is also found in rocks, minerals, and also in clay and as groundwater.
I say the lithosphere.
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But new research suggests a different origin for the oceans: they simply seeped out of the center of the Earth. The finding, published in Science, suggests that a reservoir of water is hidden in the Earth's mantle, more than 400 miles below the surface.