Do they really store drinking water? Are they used to store water for fighting fires? It seems impractical to store basically a drum of water hundreds of feet in the air.
In: Engineering
[Hear you go.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZwfcMSDBHs)
tl;dw: Basically, they maintain pressurization regardless of the demand on the system. If there’s a sudden spike in demand, it can take several minutes for pumps to come online so water towers make up the difference. Also, if there’s a drop in demand, the water produced by the now surplus pumping pushes the water back into the water towers.
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