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A lake with ambition and a budget, holding civilization hostage one raindrop at a time.
means A natural or artificial lake or container where water (or other fluids) is collected and stored for later use, especially to supply a city or region.
from From French réservoir, 'a storehouse,' built on the verb réserver, 'to reserve or keep back,' which traces to Latin reservare — re- ('back') plus servare ('to keep, guard, save'). So at root a reservoir is simply a place where something is kept back for later, a meaning that pooled neatly around water as cities learned to hoard their rain.
- weight tricks
- Massive ones can subtly slow Earth's rotation
- drowned towns
- Many hide submerged villages beneath their surface
- earthquake maker
- Their weight has triggered actual seismic activity
- evaporation thief
- They lose billions of gallons to the sky yearly
lake mead — formed by hoover dam on colorado river, supplies water to 25 million people across southwest us
three gorges reservoir — china's largest reservoir behind three gorges dam, flooded 1,300+ cities and villages when completed in 2008
aswan high dam reservoir — lake nasser in egypt, created in 1970, altered nile river flow and displaced 100,000 nubians