How exactly do water towers work?

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Is the water always up there?

How does the water get up there? I assume pumps but it all just doesn’t compute in my brain.

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It also allows for more efficient use of the infrastructure / peak shaving:

You can run smaller pumps continuously more efficiently than large pumps for just a few hours each day.

The water towers accumulate water overnight or other times of low consumer consumption, and discharge water into the system at peak use periods where the pumps alone might not have been able to keep up with demand.

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