reservoir
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Collins acknowledged that it was possible to fill the reservoir with nonpotable water, but it would only cause further delays.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
A state report published late last year, however, concluded that even a full reservoir wouldn’t have ensured enough water to stave off disaster and that hydrants would have still lost pressure amid massive demands.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026
Measures include shrinking how much water leaves that reservoir, which flows down the Colorado River into Lake Mead and supplies water to Southern California, Nevada and Arizona.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
Every year during the breeding season, the volunteers work to help toads cross the busy A525 from their land habitat to their ancestral breeding ground at the reservoir.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
It seemed to vanish off the face of the earth, but viruses never go away, they only hide, and Marburg continued to cycle in some reservoir of animals or insects in Africa.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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