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  2. Miner's inch - Wikipedia

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    The miner's inch is a method of measuring the amount of flow a particular water supply system (such as a flume or sluice) is capable of supplying. The miner ’s inch measures the amount of water that would flow through a slot of a given area at a given pressure (for example, at a head of 6 inches of water , or 1.5 kPa .)

  3. San Francisco Fire Department Auxiliary Water Supply System

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    The Ashbury tank is directly connected to the Twin Peaks reservoir and has a total capacity of 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L). The tank is set at 494 feet (151 m) and, when combined with the Jones Street tank, can provide hydrants with 214 pounds per square inch (1,480 kPa) of pressure.

  4. Fixture unit - Wikipedia

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    A Fixture Unit is not a flow rate unit but a design factor. A fixture unit is equal to 1 cubic foot (0.028 m 3) of water drained in a 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (32 mm) diameter pipe over one minute. [2] One cubic foot of water is roughly 7.48 US gallons (28.3 L; 6.23 imp gal). A Fixture Unit is used in plumbing design for both water supply and waste ...

  5. Acre-foot - Wikipedia

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    As the name suggests, an acre-foot is defined as the volume of one acre of surface area to a depth of one foot.. Since an acre is defined as a chain by a furlong (i.e. 66 ft × 660 ft or 20.12 m × 201.17 m), an acre-foot is 43,560 cubic feet (1,233.5 m 3).

  6. Nonresidential water use in the U.S. - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a sample of 706 hotels in New York City, average daily water use intensity in 2011 ranged from 60 to 456 gallons per 1000 square feet (g/ksf/d), with the median use of 215 g/ksf/d. [11] In other areas the median use per 1000 square feet were reported at: 257 gallons in Florida, [10] and 219 gallons in Austin, Texas. [11]

  7. Fire sprinkler system - Wikipedia

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    Another example would be a manufacturing facility classified as ordinary hazard group 2 where a typical design area would be 1,500 square feet (140 m 2) and the design density would be 0.2 US gallons per minute (0.76 L/min) per 1 square foot (0.093 m 2) or a minimum of 300 US gallons per minute (1,100 L/min) applied over the 1,500-square-foot ...

  8. List of rivers by discharge - Wikipedia

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    This article lists rivers by their average discharge measured in descending order of their water flow rate. Here, only those rivers whose discharge is more than 2,000 m 3 /s (71,000 cu ft/s) are shown. It can be thought of as a list of the biggest rivers on Earth, measured by a specific metric.

  9. Residential water use in the U.S. and Canada - Wikipedia

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    Each load uses on average 29.3 gallons (111 liters) of water. According to EPA, a full-sized Energy Star certified clothes washer (with "water factor" - WF ≤ 8.0 gal/cycle/ft^3) should use on average 15 gallons (57 liters) of water per load, compared to at least two times that volume used by a standard machine. [14]