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
• An acre-foot of water is enough to support two Colorado households for a year.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2025
• 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
• Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the U.S., with a capacity of nearly 29 million acre-feet of water.
  — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
• An acre-foot of water is roughly equivalent to the volume of two Olympic-sized swimming pools.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 June 2023
• One acre-foot of water is roughly equivalent to the volume of two Olympic-size swimming pools.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the U.S., capable of storing nearly 29 million acre-feet of water.
  — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 June 2025
• 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
• For context, Western U.S. households tend to consume about half an acre-foot of water every year.
  — Sharon Udasin, The Hill, 27 May 2025
• March storms have added hundreds of thousands of acre-feet of water to reservoirs across California.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
• The hardware, or physical infrastructure, is the spillway and dam, which in the case of New Bullards Bar, holds back almost 1 million acre-feet of water.
  — Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025
• 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
• That was up from 9.7 million acre-feet reported during the previous year.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
• 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
• The maximum water capacity in Lake Powell is 24 million acre-feet, which, like Lake Mead, is plenty of room to sustain a range of wildlife.
  — Olivia Rose, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
• But at this point the focus is only on pursuing the 300-acre-feet increase.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
• One acre-foot is the amount needed to cover one acre with a foot of water, or about 325,851 gallons.
  — Alex Driggars, Austin American Statesman, 18 Feb. 2026