How to Use acre-foot in a Sentence

acre-foot

noun

• One acre-foot is enough water to flood one acre of land a foot deep.
  — Laura Paddison, CNN, 17 June 2024
• An acre-foot is enough water to serve two to three U.S. households for a year.
  — Associated Press, Quartz, 8 Feb. 2024
• The 4% shortfall represents the draining of 39 million acre-feet from the ground, Buschatzke said.
  — Brandon Loomis, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• An acre-foot of water is roughly enough for two to three U.S. households per year.
  — Jacques Billeaud, Fortune, 2 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• An acre-foot of water is enough to supply about three average homes for a year.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• An acre-foot of water is roughly equivalent to the volume of two Olympic-sized swimming pools.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lake Powell, meanwhile, has an active capacity of more than 23 million acre-feet.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024