reservoir
Example Sentences
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The water infrastructure system that California built over the last century, she said, depends heavily on snow naturally storing water and then gradually releasing snowmelt into reservoirs to serve cities and farmlands.
From Los Angeles Times
The Glenkiln sculpture park is now just a distant memory, but the "loop" around the reservoir remains a popular draw for cyclists.
From BBC
Another 50%-60% could take a few weeks or months, depending on the state of the reservoir and how it was shut in.
From Barron's
Unlike Venezuela, which requires sophisticated diluents and upgrading to process its heavy crude, Iran benefits from conventional drilling and rich reservoir management experience.
Detectives hope a new digital recreation of a man's face could help them work out who he was - 18 months on from his highly decomposed body being found in a remote mid Wales reservoir.
From BBC
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