The phrase "an empty reservoir" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a reservoir that has no water or resources, often metaphorically to indicate a lack of something essential.
Example: "After the long drought, the farmers were dismayed to find an empty reservoir where they once stored their water supply."
Alternatives: "a drained reservoir" or "a void reservoir".
In the classic "Chinatown," a wealthy entrepreneur's corralling of the city's water supply eventually produces a dead body — a man discovered drowned in an empty reservoir — and by the end of the movie past and present lock together like the two halves of a bridge.
Hill said: "There are a number of very important things which mitigate against any development taking place but we might be faced with an empty reservoir and our next campaign is to get it filled to stop the clay core drying out".
The barrier is closed just after low tide to create an empty "reservoir" for the river flow to fill up.
The widely used instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH) based on the Nash cascade reservoir model was obtained under a zero initial condition, or equivalently an empty reservoir assumption.
This study also shows that the seismic responses calculated from the three-dimensional finite element model are in good agreement with those obtained from the model test on the shaking table for the case of an empty reservoir and rigid foundation.
In this study, an artificial neural network (ANN) procedure is proposed for the identification of concrete gravity dams, in conjunction with a hybrid finite element boundary element (FE BE) analysis for the prediction of dynamic characteristics of an existing concrete gravity dam with an empty reservoir.
In a typical empty reservoir — whatever its over-all dimensions may be — stands a columnar tower that resembles a campanile.
The relentless drumbeat of negative news from Interpublic, even after assurances that all the financial bombshells about earnings restatements and division losses had been dropped, has resulted in a nearly empty reservoir of good will among shareholders and analysts.
The call came in on Julia Di Sieno's wildlife rescue hotline at 1 35 p.m. Feb. 11: "A coyote has fallen into the empty reservoir over at the Santa Ines Mission".
Less forgivable are Weiner's empty reservoir of good sense and his lack of otherwise redeeming qualities as a politician.
Regarding the type of load, it was considered the own weight of the dam (empty reservoir) and the own weight with water pressure (full reservoir).
