In Wales, Croescwtta pond would previously have provided a deep-water refuge but habitat changes over at least the past 15 years led to progressive accumulation of mud and decrease in water depth.
For example, UNICEF has provided pumps to help drain and clean ponds and wells that are the only sources of water for many villages in Irrawaddy.
He's since moved to London, which has provided even more fodder for his character's jump across the pond.
I watched Red Cross volunteers mix the water-guard solution that UNICEF had provided with water in a barrel collected from the pond before handing it out in plastic bags.
It is assumed that this event triggered the sudden drying up of the Moervaart palaeolake and surrounding ponds, which until then had provided Federmesser hunter-gatherers with extensive and fertile grounds for hunting, gathering and drinking water.
It has a pond, wooden houses, front lawns, brick shops.
The town has a pond with a beach in North Woodstock.
The garden has a pond deep enough to swim in.
Dad had made a pond there with a polythene liner.
