The amount is usually expressed in (cubic metres per second).

The maximum discharge can be up to 500 cubic metres per second.

The average discharge at the mouth is approximately 20 cubic metres per second.

Mean annual flow is 90 cubic metres per second.

The maximum allowed outtake of water is 80 cubic metres per second.

As it passes south of Newfoundland, this rate increases to 150 million cubic metres per second.

The river's drainage basin covers 141 square kilometres and its average discharge is 0.7 cubic metres per second.

The plan was to divert river water at the rate of up to 280 cubic metres per second into a separate canal for six power stations.

A rough estimate of the water flow rate (during the dry season month of August 2006) was approximately 5 cubic metres per second.

At Ignatovo near the Tsibritsa's mouth its average discharge is 2 cubic metres per second.

It has formed on Ivindo river and belongs to most powerful waterfalls in the world with its medium flow 900 cubic metres per second.

The largest river by volume is the Clutha River with a mean discharge of 533 cubic metres per second.

One cumec is shorthand for cubic metre per second; also cms or m/s (ms).

Some quicksands and water who invaded the building site ( 45 cubic metres per second), retarded the workers pending the coalmine construction.

During the dry season a volumetric flow of 4 cubic metres per second is released to prevent the Isar from running dry.

The average annual flow of water at the mouth of the Ubort River is 24.4 Cubic metres per second.

In a typical year there are several events where the daily rainfall exceeds 50 mm and the river flow exceeds 400 cubic metres per second.

The median flow of the Waitaki River at Kurow is 356 cubic metres per second.

The flow rate down the 15 kilometre wide flood plain at Fitzroy Crossing was estimated to be 30,000 cubic metres per second.

At current water usage rates, treatment plants take water at a rate of about 3.1 cubic metres per second for drinking water processing.

Rain falling directly on the surface of the sound provides another 14 cubic metres per second, and the remainder drains from adjacent land via small streams.

Each unit produces around 100 megawatts with an operating head of 26 metres and flow of 458 cubic metres per second.

The average flow of the river is very low, only a few cubic metres per second, but much higher flows are possible during periods of heavy runoff.

The reservoir has a capacity of 4.8 million cubic metres and the spillway structure can pass up to 1274 cubic metres per second.

The volume of the Gulf Stream dwarfs all rivers that empty into the Atlantic combined, which barely total 0.6 million cubic metres per second.