Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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What’s an Acre Foot and why do we still use this weird unit to measure water?

Imagine a football field (no end zones) under 1 foot of water. That’s an acre foot — 325,851 gallons! It comes from 1800s farming in the arid West, and today it helps us talk about huge amounts of water, like the 16.5 million acre feet allocated in the Colorado River Basin.

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