Artificial or natural body of water used to collect and store water

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The aqueduct at Cairo with a ground plan. Line engraving.

Storage reservoir at Claremont Square, Pentonville, under construction. Wood engraving, 1856.

South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.

China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

Malaria control on impounded water / United States Public Health Service and Tennessee Valley Authority, Health and Safety Department.

Donnye otlozheni︠︡ia dneprovskikh vodokhranilishch / B. I. Novikov ; A. I. Denisova, otvetstvennyĭ redaktor.

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South Gate House, New Reservoir, New York. Coloured lithograph by A. Brown & Co., 1862.

The aqueduct at Cairo with a ground plan. Line engraving.

China during the Cultural Revolution: children and young people setting off to plant trees and dig reservoirs for the Chinese people. Colour lithograph, ca. 1970.

Malaria control on impounded water / United States Public Health Service and Tennessee Valley Authority, Health and Safety Department.

Donnye otlozheni︠︡ia dneprovskikh vodokhranilishch / B. I. Novikov ; A. I. Denisova, otvetstvennyĭ redaktor.