Q. I have a serious problem for which no one seems to be able to give me a solution. I have an old, round, 8-foot wide by 9-foot deep cistern in my backyard. It was built of red bricks and holds about ...

The basic idea of a cistern water system, which collects and stores water in or near a home, goes back centuries. In some parts of Western Asia, archeologists discovered lime plaster cisterns in the ...