There simply isn't a lot of fresh, liquid surface water:
Are we just not paying attention to newly-flooded parts of the world? Is there a floodplains in Malawi that's seeing record high water levels?
Which I don't intend as a comprehensive explanation, maybe just a wedge towards pointing out that estimating the amount of human managed/available surface water is not something that is easy to do by intuition.
edited to fix lake spelling.