cistern

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

Whether the plumber directly caused the problem, failed to identify an underlying issue, or repaired one faulty component only for another to reveal itself, the result is the same: the cistern does not function properly.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026

I have a problem with the cistern in my bathroom.

From Barron's ● 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

Every morning Nguyen went to the city well to fill heavy buckets of water and bring them home to keep their cistern filled.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge

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

The bigger concern is ingestion, as the fog covers plants or open water cisterns, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2025

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

From Salon ● Mar. 16, 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