Tmcft
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Tmcft, (Tmc ft), (TMC), (tmc) is the abbreviation of thousand million cubic feet (1,000,000,000 = 109 = 1 billion), commonly used in India in reference to volume of water in a reservoir
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Conversion
1 tmcft is equivalent to:
- {{convert|1000000000|cuft|m3}} (approx)
- 2,831 crore litres
- 2.831684660 Giga Litres
- 2831684.660 cubic metres
- 22,956.841139 acre feet
- 6.228835459×109 imperial gallons
Alternatively, 35.32 tmcft = 1 cubic kilometer (km3) 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). The amount of water that can be discharged through a conduit per second in a cubic foot is described as a cusec.
In agriculture, a rough estimate by irrigation experts is that 1 TMC water is needed each year to irrigate {{cvt|10000|acres|order=flip}}.{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/bottled-krishna/265170|title=Bottled Krishna: Guntur farmers fume at AP's allotment of drinking water to Coke|last=Tata|first=Madhavi|date=2010-05-03|website=Outlook India Magazine|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230230458/https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/bottled-krishna/265170|archive-date=2019-12-30|access-date=2019-12-30}}