09 Aug '21 04:04>
I always thought that water towers were only used to create the pressure needed to get water into buildings.
Now, I watched a video that told me that water towers do do that, but that the water in them is actually used. So the water tower is actually the water supply (and because of elevation and gravity, it supplies the pressure) and is refilled every night with water pumps.
I tried googling this and this latter seems to be true.
It’s breaking my mind.
Why in hell would you create such a system? Surely if you need water in case electricity fails, then having to use pumps every night (and they ain’t horse powered pumps there in Manhattan) is a bit of an inconvenience?
Or are the water towers in Europe different?
Do we have a water tower expert here?
Cheers!
Now, I watched a video that told me that water towers do do that, but that the water in them is actually used. So the water tower is actually the water supply (and because of elevation and gravity, it supplies the pressure) and is refilled every night with water pumps.
I tried googling this and this latter seems to be true.
It’s breaking my mind.
Why in hell would you create such a system? Surely if you need water in case electricity fails, then having to use pumps every night (and they ain’t horse powered pumps there in Manhattan) is a bit of an inconvenience?
Or are the water towers in Europe different?
Do we have a water tower expert here?
Cheers!