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Blog commentary: Get some real units, JPL.

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on December 16, 2009 at 8:20 am

From the On the Public Record blog:

“Come on, dudes. No one cares about cubic kilometers. How is anyone supposed to understand that? Thank goodness for unit-converters.

OOOH! 24 million acre-feet have been sucked out of the ground in the San Joaquin Valley in the past six years without replenishment! Hey, that’s interesting. Let’s think about that a little. I’m going to make some very rough approximations.

At six million irrigated acres in the SJV, that would be four feet of water per acre in six years (if every grower were pumping gw). Forty-eight inches in six years means each acre is using about 8 inches of gw/year. … “

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December 16, 2009 · Filed Under San Joaquin Valley

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