Category
page 1Ponds

pond
thumb|Pond at Koarnjum|Cornjum, Netherlands
thumb|A man made pond at sunset in Montgomery County, Ohio.
thumb|[[Stereoscope|Stereoscopic image of a pond in Central City Park, Macon, GA, . This pond is collectively formed by digging up a large earth
salt evaporation pond
shallow artificial pond designed to extract salts from sea water or other brines
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stepwell
thumb|Chand Baori, in the village of [[Abhaneri near Bandikui, Rajasthan is one of the deepest and largest stepwells in India]]
thumb|right|The Rani ki Vav, Patan, Gujarat
thumb|upright|A multi-storey stepwell in Mahimapur Village, Amravati District, Maharashtra
Stepwells (also known as vav or baori) are wells, cisterns or ponds with a long corridor of steps that descend to the water level. Stepwells played a significant role in defining subterranean architecture in western India from the 7th to the 19th century. Some stepwells are multi-storeyed and can be accessed by a Persian wheel which is
kettle
shallow depression formed by a retreating glacier
Al-Kawthar
river in Paradise in Islam
Solar pond
solar thermal energy
beaver dam
dam constructed by beavers
garden pond
water feature in gardens
dew pond
type of man-made water body, filled by condensation or precipitation
detention basin
flood control measure
settling basin
structure using sedimentation to remove matter from wastewater
wastewater lagoon
ponds designed and built for wastewater treatment
cooling pond
man-made body of water, formed to cool heated water or to supply cooling water
melt pond
pool of open water that forms on sea ice in the warmer months of spring and summer
mill pond
body of water used as a reservoir for a water-powered mill
beel
220px |right |thumb |A beel near Aloa village, Tangail District, Bangladesh
thumb|right|Halti Beel in Natore District
right|thumb|Maguri Motapung Beel in [[Tinsukia district of Assam]]
A beel (Bengali and Assamese: বিল) is a lake-like wetland with static water as opposed to moving water in rivers and canals - typically called in Bengali, in the Ganges - Brahmaputra flood plains of Bangladesh, and the Indian states of West Bengal and Assam. The term owes its origins to the word of the same pronunciation meaning "pond" and "lake" in the Bengali and Assamese languages.
duck pond
pond that is inhabited by ducks
waste pond
small body of water used for disposing pollutants into
Sediment basin