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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/02/2015 8:10 AM, Clifford Snow
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:54 PM, John
F. Eldredge <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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again, we are divided by a common language. In American
usage, a cistern is a holding tank for captured rain
water, used as an alternative to a well in areas where no
city water supply is available. They often take the form
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I've also seen them on the coast of Alaska in above ground
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In Australia rain water collection is common, or more correctly
essential, in country areas. They are usually placed on the ground,
or on a platform. Less frequently they are on elevated platforms or
underground. Frequently they are simply called 'rain water tanks' or
'water tanks'. Cistern would be very rarely used, if ever, for these
kind of tanks. In remote areas each building will have at least one
tank, some the the tanks are quite large. Probable tag
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/storage_tank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/storage_tank</a><br>
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