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by masklinn 88 days ago
> could save up to 63 billion gallons of water annually

To put it into perspective, 63 billion gallons is 193340 acre-feet, which is 0.5% of california's water use (a bit under 40 millions acre-feet). That's a tenth the water consumption of lawns, which is 1/15th the water consumption of agriculture.

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Or about 4 hours of Mississippi River discharge.
But how many football fields?
A football field is 1.32 acres, so it's 146470 football-field-feet.