The cost of irrigation water varies widely throughout the U.S and the world.
Individual crops require a varying amount of water to reach marketable size, stage or maturity.
Our concern with this natural resource, water, requires study and understanding. Lets take a look at how water is measured and apply this to agricultural or garden uses. One inch of water in the form of rainfall over an area means that the entire area received enough rain to cover it with a depth of one inch of water. As an example, lets say that during our rainy season we received 12 inches of rain. Grower A uses 1.75 acre feet of water.