water reservoirs
Artificial water stores
Water reservoirs are natural or artificial bodies of water stored for human use—drinking water, irrigation, hydroelectric power, or flood control.
A reservoir may be a lake behind a dam, an underground aquifer, or a constructed tank.
The city's water reservoirs were at dangerously low levels after the drought.
- damsWater-blocking structures
- dam burstStructural water barrier failure
- man-made lakeArtificially created water body
- cisternsContainers storing collected water
- holding tankContainer for temporary retention
irrigation systems · sluice gates · recreation · fish ladders · fish habitat · power plants · wetlands · flood mitigation · catchment · retention ponds · penstocks · habitat disruption · monitoring systems · ecological conservation · drinking · tank · agriculture · drought conditions
- indoor growinggrow lights, hydroponics, aquaponics, vertical farming, ebb and flow
- terrace farmingterraces, rice terraces, risers, treads, retaining walls
water reservoirsnatural lakes
Undammed water basins
glacial lakes · oxbow lakes · natural springs · wild rivers · the ocean
water reservoirsdrainage systems
Channels for water removal
spillways · outflows · irrigation canals · aqueducts · flood plains