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Here's all the cost figures in metric, in case you forgot how to handle gallons => acre-feet in your head. cost / cubic meter [ Residential ]
by throwaway_yy2Di 12y ago
Here's all the cost figures in metric, in case you forgot how to handle gallons => acre-feet in your head.
cost / cubic meter
[ Residential ]
$0.63 Fresno
$1.69 Boston
$2.64 HN'er in Dubai
[ Agriculture ]
$0.02 CA Imperial Irrigation District ($0.016, rounded)
$0.16+ San Diego
[ Desalination plants ]
$1.62 San Diego
Alfalfa's market value is $0.75 per m^3 of water used growing it. (The article compared this to the $1.62 desal figure: i.e., at market (?) rates, growing it would be a net loss).
Here's a related factsheet of California water statistics. Tap water amounts to 9 km^3/year; irrigation is 32 km^3.
http://ca.water.usgs.gov/water_use/2010-california-water-use.html http://ca.water.usgs.gov/water_use/2010-california-water-use...
- lucian1900 12y ago> in case you forgot how to handle gallons => acre-feet in your head Or in case those have no intuitive meaning to you :) Thanks.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoA gallon is ~4 litres (two large bottles of soda) and an acre is a the small end of a soccer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H football-field (or half of a big one). For an acre-foot, that's all underwater, up to your shins. Or maybe you just stacked all the soda bottles next to each other, they're about a foot tall...