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Recent Examples of water holeFor them, luxury is watching elephants drink at the water hole under moonlight or waking up to hear lion roars in the distance.—Roger Sands, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025 The water hole was surrounded by palm trees and sand dunes during the late Cretaceous period, but since then, the environment has changed drastically.—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Mar. 2025 Water Holes Canyon The name Water Holes Canyon is a bit fanciful as there no significant permanent water holes here.—Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 9 Nov. 2024 Hang Trail Cameras Over Scrapes Short of a corn pile or isolated water hole, the best way to take inventory of the deer in your area is by hanging cameras over large community scrapes.—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 17 Oct. 2024 There are five water holes operated by mechanical pumps.—Mazuba Kapambwe, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2024 When the females had cubs, in contrast, males were more likely to encounter potential rivals on the edges of their territory or around water holes.—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2024 The most popular months for the park’s one million annual visitors, this is also the season when wildlife is most active; animals like alligators, deer, and wading birds congregate around lingering water holes.—Matt Kirouac, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2023
Chennai in southeastern India came very close to running out of water in 2019, as the monsoon rains failed and and reservoir levels plummeted.
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Laura Paddison,
CNN Money,
23 Sep. 2025
In Arizona, the Game and Fish Department has been preaching vigilance among boaters and anglers, urging them to fully clean their watercraft before moving to another lake or reservoir.
Krishna discovers that Kaliya is living beneath the surface of a local pond and poisoning its waters with his venom.
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Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
According to Greenpeace's analysis, Russia has also completed construction of a new water supply system for the plant's cooling pond and deliberately damaged a 750-kilovolt power line that had connected the facility to Ukraine's electrical grid.
The Victorian park was the first public botanical garden in the country and brims with plants, fountains, statues, and a scenic lagoon where swan boats float in the summer.
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Kori Perten,
AFAR Media,
24 Sep. 2025
But how did nonlocal pterosaurs end up in the lagoon?
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