acre-foot

基本解释

The price for farmers there is a flat rate of $19 per acre-foot, or $19 for 325, 851 gallons of water.
对于那个农民而言，水的价值是每英亩（即325851加仑）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.
即使是每英亩19美元，这个19美元也并非买水的价格，不过是输送水的价格。
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英亩的草坪、私人的天文台都离他远去，现在的他就像是第一天进入大学的孩子一样不知所措。

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 resulting 5, 000-square-foot home on a two-acre wooded lot cascades down the mountainside following the natural landscape.
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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