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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

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

Related: My plumber charged $160 to fix the cistern on my toilet — but created another problem.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 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

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

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

When it runs out, he jumps from one rooftop to another to gather buckets of water from nearby cisterns.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Another approach would be to place cisterns scattered across neighborhoods to store non-potable water locally for firefighting — as is done in Tokyo and other cities in Japan.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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