A rchaeologists working at Zerzevan Castle uncovered an 1,800-year-old water network that carried spring water from 8.5 kilometers away to cisterns, residences, and the subterranean Mithras Temple ...

Cisterns Cisterns are big holding tanks for water. I've run across a handful of homes in Minneapolis with abandoned cisterns, but never an active one. (The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Over 30 cisterns are being built to prepare for a major earthquake. Crews have been working very hard over the last few weeks on what San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White calls a ...

Two large underground cisterns for collecting and storing rainwater, dating back to the Ottoman Empire, were revealed in Jerusalem during construction work, the municipality announced Thursday.

Some of the cisterns were photographed, and security officials shared their documentation with the Israel Antiquities Authority. The Waqf claimed that forces had also searched the cave under the ...

Turns out, those circles date back to the mid-1800s, and they mark huge underground tanks, or cisterns, that hold water to fight fires. There are more than 170 cisterns scattered throughout San ...

Cisterns are filled by a delivery truck service. "School bus drivers have a big chunk of free time between routes," said George McGraw, parent organization DigDeep's executive director.

In a late communication by Mr. Smirke to the Institute of British Architects, he directed attention to cisterns for containing water, describing three different kinds as used in England. First ...

The cisterns were built as part of the rebuilding efforts in the aftermath. In the past, visitors could rent a rowboat to float past the columns in the dripping gloom.

As the egg-shaped cisterns have no jdge or angle at the bottom, of course they ire capable of withstanding a greater amount )f hydorstatic pressure than the flat bottoms, md are, therefore, not so ...

Environment Secretary Raphael Lotilla says they are in talks with the housing department to push developers to install cisterns in their projects ...