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Cisterns placed underneath parking lots, parks or open spaces in a neighborhood could store rainwater runoff for firefighting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025

Cisterns catch rainwater for the toilets and hoses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cisterns should always be built with care and made water-tight and impervious.

From The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) by Winslow, Kenelm

About a mile before the destination is reached, the road passes "The Cisterns," where the horses are watered.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton

As for the mountain of Shaua, it is described by the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III. as in the neighbourhood of the northern Lebanon, while the city of the Beeroth or "Cisterns" is probably Beyrout.

From Patriarchal Palestine by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)