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  2. 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). There has been two definitions of the acre-foot (differing by about 0.0006%), using ...

  3. California State Water Project - Wikipedia

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    Although the overall average cost of SWP water is $147 per acre-foot ($119 per 1,000 m 3), agricultural users pay far less than their urban counterparts for SWP water. The Kern County Water Agency (the second largest SWP entitlement holder) pays around $45–50 per acre-foot ($36–41 per 1,000 m 3 ) of SWP water, which is mostly used for ...

  4. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    The factor–label method can convert only unit quantities for which the units are in a linear relationship intersecting at 0 (ratio scale in Stevens's typology). Most conversions fit this paradigm. An example for which it cannot be used is the conversion between the Celsius scale and the Kelvin scale (or the Fahrenheit scale). Between degrees ...

  5. California is letting billions of gallons of stormwater wash ...

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    Of the 10 states with the most "untapped potential," California ranks ninth with approximately 2.27 million acre-feet of urban area runoff each year. (An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons ...

  6. Tmcft - Wikipedia

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    22,956.841139 acre feet 6.228835459×10 9 imperial gallons Alternatively, 35.32 tmcft = 1 cubic kilometer (km 3 ) is the standard unit used by Central Water Commission of Government of India for reporting gross and effective storage capacities of dams in India in National Register of Large Dams (NRLD).

  7. California Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    Channel capacity is 13,100 cubic feet per second (370 m 3 /s) and the largest pumping plant capacity at Dos Amigos is 15,450 cubic feet per second (437 m 3 /s). A 2021 study published in Nature Sustainability estimated that the installation of solar panels over the canal could potentially reduce annual water evaporation by 11–22 million US ...

  8. California reports the first increase in groundwater supplies ...

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    The state saw 4.1 million acre-feet of managed groundwater recharge in the water year ending in September, and an 8.7 million acre-feet increase in groundwater storage, California’s Department ...

  9. Desalination - Wikipedia

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    Each $1,000 per acre-foot works out to $3.06 for 1,000 gallons, or $0.81 per cubic meter. [ 176 ] As new technological innovations continue to reduce the capital cost of desalination, more countries are building desalination plants as a small element in addressing their water scarcity problems.