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.
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They arent for either really. They’re used to help pressurize the water system. Pumps fill them up with water, they’re elevated, and that means if some section of the pipes loses a lot of water it drains down from the water towers and overall pressure is maintained.
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