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  2. Cistern - Wikipedia

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    The city's firefighting network, the Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) maintains a network of 177 independent underground water cisterns, with sizes varying from 75,000 US gallons (280,000 L) to over 200,000 US gallons (760,000 L) depending on location with a total storage capacity of over 11 million U.S. gallons (42 million liters) of water ...

  3. Underground storage tank - Wikipedia

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    Composite tanks such as carbon fiber with a polymer liner (thermoplastic). See rotational molding and fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP). Underground storage tanks for water are traditionally called cisterns and are usually constructed from bricks and mortar or concrete.

  4. Chultun - Wikipedia

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    A chultún (or chultun, plural: chultunob' or chultúns) is a bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica. Their entrances were surrounded by plastered aprons which guided rainwater into them during the rainy seasons. Most of these archaeological features likely functioned as cisterns for ...

  5. The extraordinary and ancient secret places hidden under Turkey

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    Şerefiye Underground Cistern (Theodosius Cistern), Faith, Istanbul Like the Basilica, this elegant cistern was built during late Roman times to ensure a supply of water to Constantinople, as ...

  6. Basilica Cistern - Wikipedia

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    Cisterna Basilica is located to the west of Hagia Sophia and is of a similar size. The square on the left of the map marks the location of the Cistern of Philoxenos.. The Basilica Cistern, or Cisterna Basilica (Greek: Βασιλική Κινστέρνα, Turkish: Yerebatan Sarnıcı or Yerebatan Saray, "Subterranean Cistern" or "Subterranean Palace"), is the largest of several hundred ancient ...

  7. Rainwater tank - Wikipedia

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    A rainwater tank (sometimes called a rain barrel in North America in reference to smaller tanks, or a water butt in the UK) is a water tank used to collect and store rain water runoff, typically from rooftops via pipes. Rainwater tanks are devices for collecting and maintaining harvested rain. A rainwater catchment or collection (also known as ...

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