Aside from its normal supply function, it also serves as an adequate emergency storage in the event of a water main failure. The system is more expensive to install and needs more pipework than the direct system, but all cistern-supplied outlets experience the same pressure. The most common t...
Moab, which had threatened Israel, was to be so completely subdued, and become so utterly contemptible as to be likened to a washpot or basin in which men wash their feet. More than this, however, may have been intended—nay, we feel sure was intended by the expression. Let us explain...
Large purchases of the necessary materials to build the aqueducts, canals, and cisterns have created a very hot and lively market. With the calm created with the Kin and Preceptor factions working together, and the Preceptors in control of a favourable market, many nations begin to negotiate ...
Just then the nurse came into the cistern-house bringing her little sister. I put Helen's hand on the baby and formed the letters "b-a-b-y," which she repeated without help and with the light of a new intelligence in her face. On our way back to the house everything she touched ...