cistern

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

They traced the sound back to the cistern and climbed up about seven feet to its small opening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Coffee gives the example of a basketball court in the Netherlands that also serves as a giant storm drain, with seating around the edges that channels rainwater down into a cistern under the court.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

Your cistern no longer refills endlessly, but now you have to lift the lid and manually reset it after every flush.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

One morning in April, when the heat had returned for drying lentil wafers on the roof, we noticed that someone had vomited by the cistern tap.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

They plan to put plants into the built-in containers above their backyard cisterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Farmers in tractors tugged water cisterns and aimed hoses at the blaze.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

So to mark his manhood, Tyrion was given charge of all the drains and cisterns within easterly Rock.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin