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the Outer Trial Bank , a nature reserve in East Anglia , UK , was originally built as part of a failed government scheme to barrage the Wash and create a reservoir ?
the Schluchsee , at 930 metres above sea level , is the highest reservoir in Germany and also the largest lake in the Black Forest ?
the world's earliest-known reservoirs were constructed by the people of the ancient city of Dholavira , which is located on an island in Kutch ?
when the Coucoucache Indian reserve was inundated by a new reservoir , the Canadian Government was compensated only $380 for the loss of land?
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers originally proposed a large reservoir by damming the Anacostia River at Massachusetts Avenue SE , but built the much smaller Kingman Lake in 1920 instead?
prominent Soviet Armenian finswimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saved 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen from a dam into the Erevan reservoir ?
Hardy Lake is Indiana 's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area?
Lake Washington , the main reservoir for Newburgh , New York , holds enough water to supply the city for a year?
Pinirampus pirinampu , a species of migratory catfish , is one of the most important fishery resources in certain reservoirs in its native range ?
for building a giant reservoir , King Mahasen , who ruled Sri Lanka from AD 275 to 301, was declared a God by his subjects?
Birket Israel , once the largest reservoir in Jerusalem , is now a parking lot?
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Question 3 : This is also often the point at which intakes for ________ begin to suck air in, and must be extended into deeper water, where stagnant water quality is much poorer.
Question 4 : Dry climate and water scarcity in ________ led to early development of water management techniques, including the building of a reservoir at Girnar in 3000 BC.
Question 5 : Reservoirs are often created by building a reinforced dam , usually out of ________ , earth , rock , or a mixture across a river or stream .
Question 7 : This is a design feature that allows particles and silts to settle out, as well as time for natural biological treatment using ________ , bacteria and zooplankton that naturally live within the water.
Question 8 : Five thousand years ago, the craters of extinct volcanoes in ________ were used as reservoirs by farmers for their irrigation water.
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