1.   A. The rain will refill the reservoirs, but as far as trees and shrubs are concerned, the damage is already done.

2.   Even if rain appears this weekend, meteorologists believe that we will pull out of this drought slowly, too slowly to refill the reservoirs by early summer.

3.   The reservoir was never refilled.

4.   Think of watering as refilling the reservoir of moisture in the soil, rather than wetting its surface.

5.   When the system was refilled, only the reservoir was refilled, creating the potential for a vacuum condition in the lines.

6.   Less runoff means less water refilling reservoirs to power turbines.

7.   The agency estimated it would take three years of rain to refill the reservoirs in the province of South Hamgyong.

8.   The storms also promised to refill dwindling reservoirs along the Rio Grande, National Weather Service forecaster Tim Speece said.