acre-foot

基本解釋

The price for farmers there is a flat rate of $19 per acre-foot, or $19 for 325, 851 gallons of water.
對于那個農(nóng)民而言，水的價值是每英畝（即325851加侖）19美元。
Even at $19 per acre-foot, $19 is not the cost of the water; it is simply the cost to deliver the water.
即使是每英畝19美元，這個19美元也并非買水的價格，不過是輸送水的價格。
Gone were his personal assistant, his 6,000-square-foot mansion, his sprawling 13-acre lawn, and his private observatory. But he was as giddy as a kid on his first day of college.
私人助理、6000英尺的豪宅、13英畝的草坪、私人的天文臺都離他遠(yuǎn)去，現(xiàn)在的他就像是第一天進(jìn)入大學(xué)的孩子一樣不知所措。

Given 326, 000 gallons in 1 acre-foot, that would mean building roughly 10 plants the size of Poseidon's.
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The 70-acre estate includes a colossal 40, 000-square-foot main house.
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the volume of water that would cover an area of 1 acre to a depth of 1 foot: equivalent to 43560 cubic feet or 1233.5 cubic metres