cistern
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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
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
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
A large plot stretched behind it with a cistern, a privy, a poor excuse for a garden, and at the far end, a carriage house and small stable.
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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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
The commission recommended creating “hyperlocal non-potable water storage” by installing cisterns as parks and schools are rebuilt.
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
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