An acre-foot is roughly the amount of water used by a family of four in a year. ❋ Jim Carlton (2011)
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. ❋ Peter H. Gleick (2011)
* 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. ❋ Michael Hiltzik (2010)
An acre-foot, about 326,000 gallons, can meet the annual water needs of up to two U.S. households. ❋ AP (2010)
Poseidon estimates its water will cost $1,200 per acre-foot (AF), offset by a $250 per AF subsidy from the Metropolitan Water District as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in tax-free state bonds. ❋ Unknown (2009)
An acre-foot, equal to slightly less than 326,000 gallons, is roughly the amount two suburban households consume in a year. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In California's water rights system, farmers on one side of the Central Valley pay less than $10 for an acre-foot of water (enough water to cover an acre one-foot deep), while those on the other side are forced to pay up to 60 times more — $600 an acre-foot — to keep trees alive. ❋ Unknown (2009)
An acre-foot is 326,000 gallons, or the average amount of water a family of four uses in a year. ❋ Unknown (2009)
"The state is offering about $275 per acre-foot of water, which is a reasonable deal," said Mr. Bransford, who has been growing rice for 29 years. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For the organic systems that translates into about 3,670 lbs of CO2 per acre-foot per year -- and that's not even counting the reductions in CO2 emissions represented by the fact that organic farming uses just 63 percent of the energy required by conventional farming systems, largely because of the massive amounts of energy required to synthesize nitrogen fertilizer. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Poseidon and the engineering firm it was working with estimated in 1999 that the plant would cost $110 million to build and produce water costing an average of $677 an acre-foot. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Poseidon plans to sell the water for about $950 per acre-foot. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Exceeding the initial estimate, construction came to $158 million, and the desalinated water costs $1,100 an acre-foot. ❋ Unknown (2008)
(An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, enough water for four people a year.) ❋ Unknown (2008)
That compares with an average $700 an acre-foot that local agencies now pay for water. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Desalination units, such as the one Santa Barbara is building, produce water at a cost ($2,000 per acre-foot, enough for one average household for two years) that makes imported designer water look reasonable. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When agri-businesses utilize water, they are charged for every acre-foot of water they use. ❋ Unknown (2008)
If the farmers are paying for every acre-foot of California water they take and the foresters pay for every board foot of timber they harvest from California forests then why shouldn't the oil companies pay for every barrel of oil they take? ❋ Unknown (2008)
