steenbras
Britishnoun
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Origin of steenbras
C17: from Afrikaans, from Dutch steen stone + brasen bream
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The city has also closed the popular Steenbras Nature Reserve and Gorge hiking route to assess the impact of the floods.
From BBC
City resident and photographer Kelvin Trautman captured the scale of the crisis in this image of an empty reservoir at Steenbras Upper Dam.
From Nature
On Tuesday, the city of four million moved its estimate for “Day Zero” to July 9 from June 4 due to a decline in water usage, and after the Groenland farmers association also released 10 billion liters of water from their private reservoirs into the Steenbras storage dam.
From Reuters
On Tuesday, the city of four million moved its estimate for “Day Zero” to July 9 from June 4 due to a decline in water usage, and after the Groenland farmers association also released 10 billion liters of water from their private reservoirs into the Steenbras storage dam.
From Reuters
In addition, the Groenland farmers association also released water from their private reservoirs into the Steenbras storage dam.
From Reuters
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