>>>>From BBC News: "The aquifer is said to hold some 200bn cubic litres of water." My brother wondered what a square litre would look like.
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>>>Very shallow :-}
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>>Yeah that metric stuff is silly. Give it to me in square gallons.
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>Nah, more useful would be hectare-foot or acre-metre
>(a partially "metricized" version of acre-foot (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acre-foot ) )
Whatever happened to cubits? is that just a ship building thing?
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