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
  • 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
  • Through that program, growers will now be able to receive $430 per acre-foot of water conserved.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 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
  • Stormwater recharge projects, some still in construction, have benefits of 15-25 acre-feet of water in a year.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The current cycle will end in October, yet Mexico still owes more than 1.3 million acre-feet.
    — Berenice Garcia, Austin American-Statesman, 26 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Although California has saved over 1.2 million acre-feet of water in two years (about a third of what farmers in the IID use in a year), the overall outlook remains uncertain.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 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
  • The Sites Reservoir aims to store about 1.5 million acre-feet of water, requiring an enormous amount of water to be diverted from the Sacramento River system.
    — Sofia Prado-Irwin, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • 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
  • For reference, a typical suburban U.S. household uses about an acre-foot of water each year.
    — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 24 Nov. 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

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