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- noun Plural form of
megaliter .
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Examples
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Groundwater on Fraser Island is stored in massive reserves (estimated to be around 10-20 million megaliters (ML)) within the sandmass, of which almost 6 million ML is above sea level.
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These were the Niven Pines, able to synthesize and store megaliters of volatile and flammable hydrocarbons.
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Pumping from the relocated station started at the end of 1995, with some 100 megaliters of underground water per day being discharged into the upper reaches of the Blesbokspruit.
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About 116,000 megaliters of water a day was being released from Brisbane's Wivenhoe Dam, which may cause road closures, said local authorities.
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The Sydney plant can pump 250 megaliters of water each day, about 15 percent of the city's needs.
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