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Water tower facts for kids
A water tower in Carmel, Indiana.
A water tower is a building that is used to hold and give out water. It is almost always built on a high place. It works because a pump gives water to the tower, and gravity makes the saved water go out to the places that need water. Those places are connected to the tower by pipes. A water tower is good when there is no power because it uses gravity to send out the water.
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Shooter's Hill water tower is a local landmark in London, United Kingdom. Water towers are common around London suburbs.
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Louisville Water Tower, one of the few remaining standpipe water towers in the United States. It was completed in 1860.
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The House in the Clouds in Thorpeness functioned as the town's water tower from 1923 until 1977.
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Tower with local high school mascot, a Tiger (Centerville, Texas).
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Rooftop water towers on apartment buildings on East 57th Street in New York City. The structures seen here illustrate three architectural approaches to incorporating these tanks in the design of a building. From left to right, a fully enclosed and ornately decorated brick structure, a simple unadorned roofless brick structure hiding most of the tank but revealing the top of the tank, and a simple utilitarian structure that makes no effort to hide the tanks or otherwise incorporate them into the design of the building.
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Eindhoven Water Towers
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Mechelen-Zuid water tower, one of the tallest in the world