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How Much Water Is It?

 

An acre-foot (AC-FT, acre-ft) is a unit of volume used to measure quantities of equivalent to the volume of water required to cover 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot and equivalent to 43,560 cubic feet, 325,851 gallons, or 1,233 cubic meters.

http://water.usgs.gov/ADR_Defs_2005.pdf

54,000 acre-ft x 43,560 cubic ft = 2,352,240,000 cubic ft (2.3 billion cubic feet)

54,000 acre-ft x 325,851 gallons = 17,595,954,000 gallons (17.5 billion gallons) annually  

 

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