Tmcft
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The abbreviation tmcft (also written tmc ft, TMC, or tmc), representing a thousand million cubic feet (one billion = 1,000,000,000 = 109 cubic feet) is commonly used in India in reference to volume of water in a reservoir[1] or river flow.[2][failed verification]
Conversion
1 tmcft is equivalent to (approximations):
- 28,320,000 cubic metres (m3)
- 28.32 gigalitres
- 22,957 acre-feet
- 7.4805 billion US gallons
- 6.2288 billion imperial gallons
Alternatively, 1 cubic kilometre (km3) = 35.32 tmcft is the standard unit used by the Central Water Commission of the Government of India for reporting gross and effective storage capacities of dams in India in National Register of Large Dams (NRLD).
In agriculture, a rough estimate by irrigation experts is that 1 tmc ft water is needed each year to irrigate Template:Cvt.[3]
The amount of water that can be discharged through a conduit is often expressed in cubic feet per second (cusec).
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tata, Madhavi (3 May 2010). "Bottled Krishna: Guntur farmers fume at AP's allotment of drinking water to Coke". Outlook India Magazine. Archived from the original on 30 December 2019. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
