Definition of "acre-foot" []

• The volume of water, 43,560 cubic feet, that will cover an area of one acre to a depth of one foot. (noun)

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• "While saving another 300,000 acre-feet seems small in comparison with the two million acre-foot reduction already achieved, it is still a lot of water that had to be captured, stored, pumped, treated, delivered, and retreated as wastewater."
• "An acre-foot is roughly the amount of water used by a family of four in a year."
• "* An acre-foot is the quantity of water needed to cover one acre to a depth of one foot, equivalent to about 325,850 gallons."