How to Use acre-foot in a Sentence
acre-foot
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One acre-foot is enough water to flood one acre of land a foot deep.
—Laura Paddison, CNN, 17 June 2024
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An acre-foot is enough water to serve two to three U.S. households for a year.
—Associated Press, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
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The 4% shortfall represents the draining of 39 million acre-feet from the ground, Buschatzke said.
—Brandon Loomis, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
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An acre-foot of water is roughly enough for two to three U.S. households per year.
—Jacques Billeaud, Fortune, 2 June 2023
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One acre-foot of water is enough to supply two families of four for a year.
—Adam Beam, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
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The earthwork should be strong enough to hold back 1 million acre-feet of water, Gatzka said.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2023
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An acre-foot of water is enough to supply about three average homes for a year.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
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In that case, the farmers proposed the government pay them around $1,500 per acre-foot of water not used for four years, but the deal went nowhere.
—Suman Naishadham, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Mar. 2023
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Idaho has over 13 million acre-feet of water in reservoirs, much of which comes from snowmelt in the mountains.
—Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 9 Apr. 2024
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Texas was the state with the most untapped potential, 7.8 million acre-feet of urban area runoff each year.
—Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
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An acre-foot of water is roughly equivalent to the volume of two Olympic-sized swimming pools.
—Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
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The cost: Up to $400 per acre-foot, a standard measurement equal to water covering one acre, one foot deep.
—Coral Davenport, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
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And developers wouldn't get a flat allotment of 2 acre-feet of water a year for the transfer.
—Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024
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Even in drought years, these storms blow in from the Pacific, hit the ramparts of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and dump tens of millions of acre-feet of runoff into the streams and rivers.
—Edward Ring, wsj.com, 5 May 2023
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An acre-foot of water is roughly the size of an American football field covered 1 foot deep.
—Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2023
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An acre-foot of water is roughly enough to serve two to three United States households annually.
—Anita Snow and Thomas MacHowicz, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2023
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While California’s reservoirs can hold about 40 million acre-feet of water, the state has emptied three times that amount from its groundwater basins.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
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According to a state estimate, valley landowners may have caught and stored almost 4 million acre-feet of water this year.
—Jake Bittle, WIRED, 6 Jan. 2024
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Still, experts say the state has a long way to go and will need more wet weather and improved groundwater recharge systems to fill a gap of 40 million acre-feet that accumulated over the last two decades.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
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Lake Powell, meanwhile, has an active capacity of more than 23 million acre-feet.
—Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
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The cuts under both alternatives could total as much as 2.1 million acre-feet, a vast amount of water that roughly equals what Arizona is expected to draw from the river this year, writes CNN.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2023
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According to city documents, the South and Northwest campuses will have groundwater rights to about 4,000 acre-feet, which will be accessible from wells.
—Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2024
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According to a 1944 treaty, Mexico is supposed to provide an average of three hundred and fifty thousand acre-feet of water per year from its tributary rivers to replenish the Rio Grande.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
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In the last three years, upstream diversions for agriculture, residences, and industry have led to a yearly deficit of more than 1 million acre-feet of water, notes a press release from Earthjustice, the non-profit representing the groups.
—Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 6 Sep. 2023
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Participants are discussing cutting back about 3 million acre-feet of water over the next three years, the majority of it paid for with federal money approved in the Inflation Reduction Act.
—Joshua Partlow, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2023
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With a maximum capacity of 1.5 million acre-feet of water, proponents say Sites will boost storage amid unpredictable climate swings.
—Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 4 June 2024
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Sunding said water deliveries from the tunnel would cost about $1,325 per acre-foot — less than the average cost for water generated by desalination, recycling and stormwater capture.
—Calmatters, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
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Paying people to save precious water was an essential component to the recent deal struck between lower basin states Arizona, California, and Nevada to collectively conserve 3 million acre-feet over the next three years, experts say.
—Ella Nilsen, CNN, 24 June 2023
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Agricultural irrigation and environmental flows to the ocean are roughly equal at around 35 million acre-feet while residential, commercial and industrial users take the remainder.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
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