cistern

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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Based on your account, the cistern appears to have developed a new fault immediately after the repair and/or the original problem may have been more complex than first realised.

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 pulled out my pocketknife with my other hand and drove it through the shingle into the wooden wall of the cistern, pinning my makeshift piece of sygaldry under the water.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

The bigger concern is ingestion, as the fog covers plants or open water cisterns, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 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

The freshwater cisterns that the monkeys relied on as a water source were destroyed.

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2025

This mosquito is almost entirely dependent on humans for its breeding areas—the still water found in water barrels, cisterns, canals, ponds, sewers, gutters, and outhouses.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy