cistern
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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
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
The cistern was overflowing with all the rain we’d had, so I spent two pitchers of it on my salty, sandy, weary body.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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
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
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
It was always hard labor—digging cisterns, building roads, hauling bricks, crushing rocks.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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