The storage areas are called : Reservoirs Reservoirs can both be made by nature or crafted by men. In order to make our lives became easier , we could create our own reservioir by digging up an open land to form a space that could contain water when its raining, as a back up resources when the lake or rivers are drying up
You could say variation in offspring (so cloning things they basically just multiple the exact same thing but with reproduction, whatever is made differs a little bit or a lot from its "parents"