cistern

The freshwater cisterns that the monkeys relied on as a water source were destroyed.

Once back home, Yazzie has her son refill a cistern in the family’s yard.

I prodded him and shouted, “Do you have a cistern, a well, anything?”

Dressed in a Carhartt hoodie and knit cap, he watches a backhoe operator dig a pit for a cistern, which will connect to the new sink that will be installed in the kitchen.

Near the village of Jaun, a construction crew was laying pipes to deliver electricity and water from a new cistern to six local farms.