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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.
Shooter's Hill water tower is a local landmark in London, United Kingdom. Water towers are common around London suburbs.
Louisville Water Tower, one of the few remaining standpipe water towers in the United States. It was completed in 1860.
The House in the Clouds in Thorpeness functioned as the town's water tower from 1923 until 1977.
Tower with local high school mascot, a Tiger (Centerville, Texas).
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.
Eindhoven Water Towers
Mechelen-Zuid water tower, one of the tallest in the world
