Sentence examples for cistern provides from inspiring English sources

In case of a hurricane, a cistern provides 9,000 gallons of emergency water.

The top of Masada is so large that crops were grown in the mountain's center and the water of a single flash flood could be channeled to the cistern, providing enough water for a year.

The sliding lid on a toilet cistern provided the sound for the opening of the Ark, and the sound of the boulder in the opening is a car rolling down a gravel driveway in neutral.

Households without cisterns were recruited by interviewers who, for every household with a cistern, also visited the next closest home without a cistern provided that they were not connected to a water system and had at least one child under the age of five years.

The cistern system provided temporary water security, but eventually it clearly proved inadequate.

Underneath the courtyard a cistern was installed, providing sufficient water for 1000 troops for a 20-month siege, with a huge vaulted ceiling supported by nine columns.

In the meantime, the state has offered to provide cisterns for local residents, using $750,000 allocated by the Wyoming Legislature this year.

This region was selected for the study because it had participated in the P1MC for several years and was planning to build more cisterns in the coming years, providing a sizable population of households with a cistern for more than one year and households without a cistern but eligible for one.

Each cistern has its individual inlet (provided with gentle shower) and outlet (covered by net) which allowed the renewal and removal of water continuously and there was no water recirculating system.

As of September 2011, P1MC has provided approximately 351,000 cisterns to families throughout the semi-arid region of northeast Brazil [ 21].

Rehabilitated/constructed 20 water cisterns for 60 households and provided 50 communal water reservoirs to 163 households.