eli5 If the pressure in water pipes can drive turbines etc, how do we generates this pressure?

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I’m assuming the answer is “massive pumps running off fossil fuels”

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Ok, so if you put an electricity generating turbine in pretty much every pipe, would that require more energy to pump through the system?

Below would only work if you’re not using fossil fuels to create the pressure right? And is there a limit on what you could get from a system?

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/03/company-turns-piped-water-into-electricity/

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