[MacrohardDoors]

Vast lakes, smaller rivers, puddles, you know?

[JumpCrisscross]

> Vast lakes, smaller rivers, puddles, you know?

The same volume of water was just…higher?

[lazide]

Notably, that is how melting glaciers raise sea levels.

[eru]

If earth were a smooth sphere, the water would be about 2500m deep.

You can't get that amount of water from lakes, rivers and puddles.

If you want to less of earth by water (than the oceans cover today), you need those parts to be covered in deeper water (on average) than the oceans are today.