The town is supplied with water from a reservoir in the hills.
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Reservoir
/ˈɹɛz.ə(ɹ).vwɑɹ/
Synonyms for "reservoir" (163 found)
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Noun(10 words)
Adjective(1 words)
potable water supply
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As the iron was heating up, Mary poured distilled water into the reservoir to make steam.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest country in the Congo Basin and home to a massive and largely inaccessible rainforest that is Earth’s second largest reservoir of carbon in vegetation, second only to the Amazon Basin rainforest.
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The flood-prone Yangtze river, which runs from Yunnan in the southwest to Jiangsu and Shanghai on the east coast, has seen a massive increase in water volumes, causing flooding in many of its tributaries and bringing water volumes in the giant Three Gorges reservoir close to record levels.
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