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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

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

If the windmill broke it would mean many days without water because the cistern was already dry of summer water, and melting snow would be a hard job.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya

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

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

Some smaller-scale ideas have emerged, such as installing cisterns, tapping water from swimming pools, or even turning to mobile pumps and pipes that could quickly route water where it’s needed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 7, 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

For at long intervals on that highway cisterns had been built for the use of troops sent in haste through the waterless regions.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien