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I had a 6.2 acre lot in an area that was zoned for 3.3 acre lots.

Kilowatts are a measure of power, energy over time, and an acre-foot is a measure of volume, not flow (volume over time).

Poseidon plans to sell the water for about $950 per acre-foot [1,200 cubic meters (42,000 cu ft)].

The amount of alfalfa eaten just by horses requires ~1.9M acre-feet, which is ~620 billion gallons.

In contrast, a five-acre spread with a single mansion might only be worth $5 million.

Near the beginning of the article, the daily volumes are discussed in terms of millions of gallons, but later on, acre-feet is used.

Also, land was listed for sale in Carefree/Cave Creek at $300 an acre.

It's sad that they mistook kilowatts for kilowatt-hours, but I think acre-foot is a good unit for measuring volumes of water.

Tiny farms grow more food per acre than large monoculture farms.

It makes no sense at all to pay $2k an acre-foot for water in a state where millions of acre-feet are being used to grow alfalfa that sells for less than $400 per acre-feet of water consumed.

So I combined the 6.2 and.4 acre lots into one and then re-split them.

> All told, it takes about 3460 kilowatts per acre-foot to pump water from Northern California to San Diego; Does the author mean 3,460 kilowatt- hours?

Each $1,000 per acre-foot works out to $3.06 for 1,000 gallons, or $.81 per cubic meter." This particularly bad implementation does not mean it could not be made better.

Would it be a "net gain" for someone to buy up all the land and charge a million euros per square acre?

That compares with an average [of] $700 an acre-foot [1200 m³] that local agencies now pay for water."In June 2012, new estimates were released that showed the cost for the desalinated water had risen to $2,329 per acre-foot.

There are some really expensive solutions out there for huge farms, but the 400+ acre farm I visited used manual scales, clipboards, and a huge team of "counters" - essentially verifying and QAing the whole process.

Acre feet is how water is sold and talked about in agriculture.