cubic gallons

[Chris Waigl]

Laurence Horn wrote:

>Sorry, I missed that.  But the vast majority of the 30,300 hits for
>the plural (there are also 13,800 for the singular) don't, at a
>glance, imply anything about shape.  They seem to basically refer to
>acres, as far as I can tell.
>
>
There's also "cubic liters/litres". Here's a converter site for "cubic
liters" to cubic inches and vice versa. From the result (1 "cubic liter"
= 61.01 cubic inches) I conclude that these are regular liters.

In metric land -- I checked German texts -- "Kubikliter" is not rare
(and also obviously nonsense) and most of the time stands for
"Kubikmeter", which is 1000 (or 10^3) liters.

Apart from sites about (the conversion of) units, "cubic liters" seem to
crop up with numbers that are too big to get a handle on for the
non-specialist at first glance:

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The food and drink industry uses as much as 312 million cubic litres of
water every year while the electronics industry uses as much as 247
million cubic litres.
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Domestic pumps achieve water volume of 450 thousand cubic liters per hour.
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We have the capacity to supply over 281000 cubic litres every day.
However, only
127000 cubic litres reach our consumers.
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Delhi already gets 455 million litres from the Ganga. With the Sonia
Vihar plants demand of 635 million litres, this is 1090 million litres
per day of diversion from Ganga. Further diversion of 3000 million cubic
metres per second from the Ganga is built into the Sharda and Yamuna
river link.

Delhi is also demanding 180 million litres per day to be diverted from
Punjab's Dhakra Dam. Water will also be diverted to Delhi from the
Renuka dam on Giri River (1250 million cubic litres per day) and Keshau
Dam on Tons River (610 million cubic litres per day) from distant
Himachal in the Himalayas.
[note the mix of "cubic litres", "litres" and "cubic metres"; I have no
idea of the actual quantities because of that]
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Chris Waigl