acre-foot

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)].

According to the following op-ed written by an almond farmer, they're paying $1000 per acre-foot for their discount water.

Others pay per acre-foot, but usually less than a tenth of what city residents pay.

Replacing California's agricultural water supply with desal plants would cost something on the order of $2,000 per acre-foot at current-day energy prices.

PS - At a conservative $500 an acre-foot that's $6 million for six fish!

PS: 2k per Acre-foot would bankrupt most farms and that’s over 270,000 gallons.

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

> 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?

The price of desal water is under $3,000 an acre-foot.

>Replacing California's agricultural water supply with desal plants would cost something on the order of $2,000 per acre-foot at current-day energy prices.

That's about $12 thousand per acre-foot.

"an acre-foot of water" An acre-foot is 1233 m^3, or 1233 tons, of water.

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.

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.