acre-foot
noun
: the volume (as of irrigation water) that would cover one acre to a depth of one foot
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Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the U.S., with a capacity of nearly 29 million acre-feet of water.
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Records show about 319 acre-feet, or 104 million gallons, flowed through the company’s network of pipes in 2023, filling a roadside tank where trucks pick up water and haul it to a bottling plant.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
Its leaders agreed to build the dam six feet higher so that the reservoir had enough space to store 5,000 acre-feet of water to be used for environmental health purposes on South Boulder Creek, which flows out of the bottom of the dam.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2025
Increasing reuse to 50 percent could push annual savings to 1.3 million acre-feet.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025
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Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Records show about 319 acre-feet, or 104 million gallons, flowed through the company’s network of pipes in 2023, filling a roadside tank where trucks pick up water and haul it to a bottling plant.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2025
Its leaders agreed to build the dam six feet higher so that the reservoir had enough space to store 5,000 acre-feet of water to be used for environmental health purposes on South Boulder Creek, which flows out of the bottom of the dam.
—Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2025
Increasing reuse to 50 percent could push annual savings to 1.3 million acre-feet.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Apr. 2025
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“Acre-foot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acre-foot. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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