Assertion: aquifer's acre foot | /r/HasProperty | lost to evaporation
Facets:
value: because of the arid conditions
type: CAUSE
value: transpiration by plants
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: About 4,960,000 acre-feet of this water is lost to evaporation, transpiration by plants, or surface runoff.
text: Of an average annual 12.4 million acre-feet of precipitation that fell on the valley floor, 10.9 million acre-feet was lost to evaporation because of the arid conditions that characterize the valley; thus, only 1.5 million acre-feet of precipita-tion entered the aquifer system as recharge.