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A large bear and her three cubs fell into the concrete cistern in Marshall Canyon County Park near the Claremont Wilderness Park’s 5-Mile Loop Trail, where they were rescued late Saturday night, the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

“The cistern on my toilet has been constantly refilling and making a hissing noise.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Replacing a toilet cistern can cost anywhere from $160 to $500, so you were charged at the lower end of that scale.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

She’s taken, perversely, with John the Baptist, imprisoned in a cistern and prophesying doom for the decadent, Godless heathens, Salome in particular.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

I prodded him and shouted, “Do you have a cistern, a well, anything?”

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

School children have outings to waterworks to understand how precious the resource is, and households have embraced water-saving devices for shower heads and toilet cisterns.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

But another island, Stromboli, still depends on ships with water cisterns.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Such cisterns typically would be installed underground, and could also be designed to capture rainwater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

The utility recently installed water hookups for one secluded mountaintop community that had been relying on cisterns and a truck hauling creek water—a project Brewster said took six years to accumulate enough government money for.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

I did every dirty job there was: I cleaned outhouses and strained bugs out of cisterns.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm