Every place Clay and I have ever lived in, even in the country, had city water. When we first looked at our homestead to buy, we were a little worried by the fact that it has a cistern and uses a rain water catchment system to collect rain water. Ok, mor
spring-fed aqueducts and groundwater wells—early modern Venice added a fourth possibility: a dense network of cisterns for capturing, filtering and storing rainwater. Venice was not unique in relying on rainwater cisterns; but nowhere in Italy (indeed in Europe...
Cistern cleaning andmaintenanceis of vital importance. If you don’t have an engineeredrainwater harvesting systemyou will most likely have a lot of sludge and yucky stuff at the bottom of your water tank. With our exclusive AquaSave plus technology we can now clean your cistern without removing...
1. (Building) a tank for the storage of water, esp on or within the roof of a house or connected to a WC 2. (Building) an underground reservoir for the storage of a liquid, esp rainwater 3. (Anatomy) anatomy another name for cisterna [C13: from Old French cisterne, from Latin cis...
(57)< Abstract > < Objective > The rainwater which flows down inside the vertical drain taking in water efficiently, it is briefAt time the mass rainwater the rainwater which can supply water in the storage of water vesselThe water-intake device for the storage of water vessel is offered. ...
a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater cistern同义词 n. [建]水箱;水池;贮水器 basin,radiator grille cistern词源中文解释 "自然或人工容器,用于盛放水或其他液体",公元13世纪中期,源自古法语 ...
It is important in these cases to have a system that does not leave the water open to algae or to mosquitoes, which are attracted to the water and then potentially carry disease to nearby humans.[7] Some cisterns sit on the top of houses or on the ground higher than the house, and...
Figure 1. (a) Minoan water cistern at the house complex in the vicinity of Chamaizi, near the town of Sitia in the eastern Crete; (b) Minoan rainfall water collection system in Myrtos–Pyrgos near the city of Ierapetra (with permission of A. Angelakis); and (c) Excavated cistern at ...
FLUSHING SYSTEM HAVING INTEGRATED METERING DEVICE FOR ADDITIVES Toilet cistern (1) having a water feed (2), a flush valve (3) and a water continuation channel (4), including at least one storage container (5) arranged in the cistern (1), the storage container (5) including a metering dev...
This rainwater harvesting (RWH) system, with an above-ground, 7,500 gallon (usable) poured-concrete cistern, used for both potable and nonpotable purposes, was designed and constructed in 2001 as an integral part of a new single-family home