May 27, 2015
What 8 million acre-feet of water actually looks like.
But how much water is that, even? An acre-foot is the amount of water it would take to cover one acre of land in one foot of water. It's the unit the government uses to measure things like lake, river and reservoir capacity. If we were to take all of that water and put it in a cube, that cube would be about 35 feet long on any side. Here's what an acre-foot looks like with a 6-foot tall human next to it, for scale.
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