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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

April the 12th, the Sickness amongst the Troops still encreasing, several of the principal Officers were seized with it, and the Water in the Cisterns began to be very low.

From A Journal of the Expedition to Carthagena With Notes: In Answer to a Late Pamphlet Entitled, An account of the Expedition to Carthagena by Anonymous

About three miles south of Bethlehem, they came to what are called the Cisterns of Solomon, three in number, of large dimensions, on the side of a hill.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Anderson, Rufus

Cisterns are to be provided on each side in the interior of the vessel, fitted with valves opening by pressure from within.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various