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reservoir

[rez-er-vwahr, -vwawr, -vawr, rez-uh-] / ˈrɛz ərˌvwɑr, -ˌvwɔr, -ˌvɔr, ˈrɛz ə- /


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However, reservoir storage and groundwater levels continue to decline.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Notable events included Lake Mead, America's largest reservoir, dropping to its lowest level on record.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Over in Silver Lake, Allison Nill walks her cats around the local reservoir in a pet stroller.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

“When he has his tail up, he’s happy,” Atrakchi said on a recent hike overlooking the reservoir.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

It used phrases like “the tumor’s singularity” and called the cells “a reservoir of morphologic, biochemical, and other information.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

However, the National Drought Group said that water storage "continued to decline at most reservoirs".

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

It operates using rainwater that collects in two reservoirs, whose levels have dropped due to the onset of El Nino.

From Barron's Sep. 7, 2026

The river’s reservoirs have declined to their lowest levels on record.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

"It doesn't fully explain why bats are such effective viral reservoirs, but it reveals a level of immune variety we didn't know existed and gives us an entirely new direction to explore."

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

In addition to building roads, causeways, canals, dikes, reservoirs, mounds, raised agricultural fields, and possibly ball courts, Erickson has argued, the Indians who lived there before Columbus trapped fish in the seasonally flooded grassland.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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