Word: cisterns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lives in Ironton, an all-black town of 200 nestled against the levee. Ironton has no running water; instead, the parish delivers wat^r by truck to each home once or twice a week. Broussard's wife developed a serious kidney ailment eight years ago, probably from drinking cistern-stored water. Two or three times a week he had to drive her to Charity Hospital in New Orleans. "They lent me a dialysis machine, but I had no water to hook it up. It had to run off my old wooden cistern. Each night I would ride to Lake...
...past echoes. There is a rhubarb patch-survivor of a century of drought, blizzard and small boys-that still yields its tender shoots for pies, a singular delicacy, which, when done right, is a dish to tempt a Paul Bocuse. A hand pump still stands proudly on a cistern. The rope hammock strung between the phi oak and the sugar maple is ragged but enduring, curving invitingly in the dusk. Hollyhocks fringe the small barn with the hayloft and the split door. The barn had been built for a new horse and buggy when Henry Ford was still considered...
Joseph Jenks, a Lynn, Mass. ironmaker, made the first fire engine in the United States in 1654. It consisted of a pump worked by relays of men at the handles and received its water supply from lines of bucket passers who dumped the water into the cistern...
...that "for the past five or six years, I have drunk a glass of my own urine-about six to eight ounces-every morning. It is very good for you, and it is even free. Even in the Bible," he went on, "it says to drink from your own cistern. What is your own cistern? It is your own urine. Urine is the water of life...
...scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard put to practice the "steadfastness and patience" he preaches. Some families in Minnesota, where 1,718 private wells dried up this winter, are melting snow for drinking water. Parts of Nebraska are the driest they...