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
  • Crop revenue per acre-foot sets a hard ceiling on what any farmer can pay for water.
    — Sara Sutherland, Oc Register, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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 is about 326,000 gallons.
    — Adrian Rodriguez, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The reservoir can hold about 900,000 acre-feet.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The reservoir can hold about 900,000 acre-feet.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 20 Sep. 2025
  • An acre-foot of water is enough to support two Colorado households for a year.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Using the non-potable water for grass saves about 50 acre-feet of drinking water.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • The project will save about 50 acre-feet of drinking water for use in the new home development.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The coalition’s plan says the region can secure up to 2 million acre-feet of local water per year.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026
  • 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
  • But at this point the focus is only on pursuing the 300-acre-feet increase.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When full, Antero Reservoir can hold more than 20,000 acre-feet.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Twice in the ‘70s, total volume exceeded one million acre-feet.
    — Allen Best, Denver Post, 14 June 2026
  • 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
  • An acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons, and enough to supply three or so households for a year.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Hot, dry years, as this one has started, can result in nearly 900,000 acre-feet being mined.
    — Allen Best, Denver Post, 14 June 2026
  • Since 2000, though, the flow has averaged only about 13 million acre-feet.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 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
  • The 4% shortfall represents the draining of 39 million acre-feet from the ground, Buschatzke said.
    — Brandon Loomis, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
  • The lowest inflow on record occurred in 2002, when less than 1 million acre-feet made its way to the reservoir.
    — Elise Schmelzer, Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The idea was to pull up to nearly forty-nine thousand acre-feet of water from the wettest part of the state and sell it to the fast-growing Dallas suburbs.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The 21,300-member tribe has rights to 650,000 acre-feet of water.
    — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2025

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