What is "reservoirs"

Usage examples of "reservoirs".

Such impounding has successful inauguration in five small reservoirs now in operation on the headwaters of the Mississippi out of forty-two planned.

An ambitious plan for controlling the turbulent Ohio by a system of from seventeen to forty-three reservoirs at an estimated cost of from twenty to thirty-four millions of dollars has been suggested by Mr.

An adequate system of reservoirs might double or treble these totals, while a million or two would be immediately available to begin the payment of the debt, and more of the strength would be harnessed to that purpose in time.

The circular spots and dots are the principal reservoirs used for impounding water for use during the long Martian summer.

In addition to the gigantic Canal system, provision had to be made for suitable reservoirs to impound the water after the seasonal thaws at the poles.

To this end immense reservoirs were constructed at most canal intersections.

The reservoirs are about 60 miles across and hold millions of gallons of water.

On subsequent occasions I was shown other canals and reservoirs, and the manner in which some of the canals were cut through the mountains.

Then he worked the attached pump to build the pressure inside the reservoirs and lit a steel gauze wick.

But that lasted only a split second as the puddled oil from the smashed reservoirs touched the glowing metal wicks and ignited into pools of fire.

Have I not heard of the great reservoirs you would make in the Fayoum, of the great dam at Assouan?