Are water towers a common sight in america?

>>135597088
Yeah, they're pretty common where I live. Not so much in capitol cities though from what I've noticed.

>>135597088
Yes, usually one in each city labeled with the city's name.

>>135597088
only in white ghettos, most cities have moved beyond this antiquated technology

All I know is that there are a few of them in the Boston area I think. One of them near a Red Rocket.

Yes. They are not antiquated at all.

t. Municipal drinking water plant operator.

>>135597088
Mind your own business

Our retards climb them and have to be coached down by our sheriffs and the retard's brother.

>>135597481
How do they work?

>>135597088

There's one right outside my window.

They're fairly common in my State.

>>135597605
Hydrostatic head.

>>135597605
They boost water pressure by way of gravity. Pump the water high up, force of gravity pushes it back down, with more force than it took to get up there in the first place.

>>135597088
Holy shit, is that Barranca Mesa pool? I used to swim there all the time as a kid

>>135597088
I think I've been to that pool

>>135597088(cheKeKed)
in the rural areas they are quite common. each town has one to help regulate the town's water pressure and guarantee some emergency supply for fire control in case of power outage.

>>135597367
>water pressure is antiquated tech

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>>135597816
In Los Alamos, NM?

I just finished up a summer internship at the lab, and loved swimming there. Possibly the nicest community i've ever been to

Very common in both suburbs and rural areas.

>>135597704
>with more force than it took to get up there in the first place

wtf? are these some kind of magic?

>>135597088
When I was on vacation about 10 years ago I went to that pool, and molested a handful of local kids.

Yes, they're used in places without hills.

I've never understood water towers. Why don't they just flip them upside down, and bury them in the ground?

>>135598011
Gravity, so kinda yeah.

>>135597088
itt: people from 3rd world shitholes who don't value good water pressure and care more that some people might have to occasionally look at a water tower.

You fucking kikes would have complained about the Roman aqueducts back in the day too I bet.

>>135597088
I live in the Midwest and every town has one, most have the towns high school mascot on it as well.

>>135598011
Fluid dynamics and gravity.In order to produce the pressure created by the water tower you would need to consume more energy than you do pumping the water up into the tower.

>>135598262
I think they're cool as shit, here we have them but they're built into buildings or underground on Mt Victoria

>>135597088
Yes but they're usually tucked away somewhere unobtrusive. You see them while driving around though.

>>135597088

If you see a water tower you can be pretty sure you're in a white community (unless you're in Tejas)

>>135598011
The idea is that the amount of water being drawn from it can fluctuate. So by having a small amount of water constantly flowing up you can compensate the on/off peak times with each other.

Do they not have water towers in other countries? Seems like it would be a pretty standard thing to have everywhere or else your water pressure would be shit.

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>>135597088
Every city has one. The nicer areas are generally more hilly, so they can use giant water tanks instead of water towers. In urban areas, buildings will often have a cistern on the top to provide water pressure.

>>135598470
So its a load balancer?

>>135598527
We have them here but they're never visible structures. Mainland china may have some, but I dont know where.

>>135597088
Small towns, yes. Some suburbs do. Big cities, not so much.

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Yeah. We mostly just use them as storage for dead Chinese people though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elisa_Lam

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>>135597088
yeah, I think so. Pretty sure New York City areas doesn't need them because majority of their water comes from the Adirondacks.

>>135597244
I always thought that was cute at.
My towns got one, op.

>>135597481
What would a fucking water plant dildo operator know about new technologies

>>135598011
No, it's like moving into your house one piece of furniture at a time vs lifting it all at once. Or like charging a battery overnight instead of while you are using a battery powered device.

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>>135597367
>we have moved beyond this technology
>now with 100% more toxic chemicals that are bound to make you steril and stupid!

>>135599427
This may be the same for California cities and Las Vegas b/c of the Rockies/Hover Dam

>>135599427
Is that the clit peach?

>>135598011
You're thinking of energy

>>135599370
What happened to the pic of her body? I seem to recall it existing but can't find it... maybe it was another case

>>135597088
What an odd thing to notice, but now that I think about it, we've got several within the city limits where I live.

>>135598011
It's called basic physics

>>135600473
If the water pipes get fucked these things are the only thing between most people and death.

>>135600054
That's "peachoid," you heathen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peachoid
And I'm sure it's just urban legend that they had to add the leaf after the fact b/c ppl were complaining that it looked like a giant vagina.

>>135598764
>So its a load balancer?
that is a good way to think of it.
Just imagine for a second what would happen to the pressure in the pipes in a system powered by pumps if everybody turned their tap off or on at the same time.
Obviously you need a pump that can supply all customers at peak usage, but it's not peak usage all the time so...
With a water tower the pump can run at peak efficiency and then turn off until the level in the tank is lowered by demand. All the while the pressure in the whole system stays relatively stable.

>>135597589

is that the real reason why he is a washed up cokehead?

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>>135597088
Depends on where you are.

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>>135598011
basically pic related

>>135597367
>t. 50% less sperm

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>when /pol/ crowd funds a water tower to help out a poor black community

>>135601698
That's not how it works at all you dumb leaf. The pressure is higher at the bottom due to there a larger mass of water on top of it.
P = rho_*g*h
Pressure = density * gravity * height

>>135602145
Ah, ol' Luling Texas.

>>135597481
Can you explain something to me, google doesn't help at all
>water pressure
water cant be compressed, unlike how air can be compressed to get air pressure.
so how the fuck do you get water pressure?
how does it still come out that fast despite having a fuck ton of bents in it?
Do you really just have pumps running 24/7 hammering against a wall waiting for someone to open a valve?
Does this not damage the pumps?
or is "water pressure" really all from water towers

>>135597088
They're all over the place here on Long Island. I can see one from my window

>>135601543
Publix is what all groceries should aspire to be.

>>135597088
It depends on where you live. When I lived in Missouri, I saw them all over the place. Then I moved to Utah, and I have yet to see one. It's because there are mountains everywhere in Utah, so the utilities build up water pressure by piping water from somewhere high in elevation down to lower elevation, even if it's just a reservoir up on a hill. In Missouri, it was pretty flat, so you need to build towers to get enough water pressure to run the utilities.

>>135597433
most of the boston area is already below the Worcester reservoir so we don't need towers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=933XNdClFrc
here you go lads

>>135598764
It also allows the water to continue to run during a power outage.

>>135603971
>everything explained in a 10 minute video

why do we need college anymore?

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>>135603680
Spelled Wegmans wrong

pretty common.

>>135597088
What the fuck are you planning you fucking cockroach

>>135605126
im a chink not a sun goblin, check the flag you inbred nigger

>>135597088
Yea but depends on where you are though

>>135604343
>why do we need college anymore?
veracity and expansion of knowledge.

College has for a while now been about instilling the -ability- to sort through information, not the teaching of it

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Boston area

>>135605168
Maybe he's just been watching too much Scarface?

>>135597088
Yes.

This isn't politics or news. Sage.

Very common in suburbs and rural areas.

In the 60s there was a group of japs who came to the US for study, saw the towers.

They unironically first believe they were murals to the nukes at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

>>135603518
Jesus fucking Christ how can someone be this retarded? "water pressure" provided by water towers isn't volume pressure of the water, it's pressure behind the water. Do you know how a siphon works? Water always flows from higher altitudes to lower altitudes. The pressure is from gravity and vacuums.

Good God this is 6th grade science class shit. Get it together, man.

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>>135597088
There's 1-2 in every town by me. Most are just for decoration or serve a superficial purpose to store floodwater for fire emergencies. We have the Chicago Deep Tunnel coming online so they're mostly decorative. Some neighborhoods by me have painted them like lighthouses.

>>135598764
Pretty much, yes.

It's a battery to store water pressure in, can discharge in high demand or if power goes out to ensure the town still has water.

Allows water systems to be ran by smaller pumps than would otherwise be needed at high demand time periods.

>>135601698
That's not how water pressure works m8.

Water pressure only increases in a straight vertical column, expansions to the sides increase volume but not pressure.

>>135604810
That's pretty fancy looking but are there prices and store branded generics any good?

>>135601698
>>135602877
>>135608529
Yes it is. It's hydraulics.
>Force water at 10 psi through 1" pipe into huge water tower all day.
>Water tower can serve 1,000 1" pipes at 10psi for part of the day.
>no single 1" pipe can do that without a raised reservoir.
He's right.

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>>135597433
Curie is best girl still.

>>135608453
>It's a battery to store water pressure in
Do not ever talk of physics again.

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>>135597605
Every 27.68" of vertical water column equals 1 psi. Storing water up high gives you a natural pressurization. Same reason ancient fountains worked, their source was elevated.

>>135597605
Magnets

>>135597088
Sort of. Not as much anymore. Used to have one in front of my High School. In fact most high schools have one near by (for some reason).

My friends and I would swim in them on hot summer days, which is really dangerous. Have to rig a rope to the latch at the top to climb back out, and of course climbing to the top of them in the first place is a danger. But it's sort of fun and a once in a lifetime experience. It's pretty dark and you feel claustrophobic and you don't know what's in the water. I would recommend everyone do at least once. You just have to be careful because it's easy to get trapped in one.

>>135610605
That's a function of volume not hydraulic force.

>>135614455
You're a stupid fucking nigger.

>>135597088
It's pretty common in Texas, although you'll only see them in suburban/rural areas.
I guess its like that everywhere in America?

>>135602145
>>135603356
Luling is weird as fuck. The whole town is filled with melons, oil pumps, and they literally have their own version of monopoly

>>135597088
Only in the states that are irrelevant

>>135600054
Kek i watched house of cards where this appears and I thought they were kidding.

> Bless you America

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heres one in my city, hayward

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>>135615628
tex-fag, can confirm

I see one in pretty much every small town, only thing I knew about them was that one movie where the kid falls into it
always scared me since thinking about going inside one

>>135603518
Water can actually be compressed, the percentage is negligible under most Earth conditions. Beyond that, water pressure comes from the water at the outlet being pushed by all the water that is farther from the earth's gravitational centre.

>>135614455
fucking degenerate scum

>>135615628
You don't see them in cities because they just put tanks on top of tall buildings.

It's baffling to me that people don't understand water towers. In two sentences:

In non-peak times, water is pumped into the tower (such as 3AM, or mid afternoon).

In peak times (8AM before work, after 5PM) the water is from the tower is then used to compensate for more water being used during this time.

It's really not that hard, and a load balancer is actually a pretty good description.

I've unironically learnt more from this thread than any thread for weeks.
I wondered wtf those meme towers were when I was in America. Why don't we have them in England?

>>135623611
why is it baffling that people don't know that? you can't easily deduce that just from the name and a picture.

>>135625364
we always have an abundance of water

>>135600054
No, that's Jeb Bush.

>>135625364
>meme towers

You coulda just read the Wikipedia article on it.

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>>135614081
wait, how did they get the water up there in ancient times

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>>135610566
HAHHAHA
>This faggots never been exposed to Wegmans subs or our hot bar or pizza shops
Why even live faggot? Neck yourself this now a /weg/ thread.

>>135621075
Not in Texas. We do have them in our cities, but they are usually in scarcely populated ateas of the city.

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>>135597088
Do not give specifics! OP is a jihadist and wants to poison your water burgers!

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>>135597589

yes thats where the govt hides the mind control transmitters

>>135597367
>white ghettos

This is why liberal memes don't work. They try to pin the racial stereotypes of blacks on whites but only succeed in reenforcing the original thought.

>1 post by this ID
Oh wait it makes sense now.

>>135630507

They didn't. Natural bodies of water at an elevation.

>>135615655
What? I never heard of Luling having their own version if monopoly.

>>135597704
I wonder which nigger will take credit for it's invention?

>>135597367
>Morgan Hill California
>ghetto
You cant afford one of the $2 million starter homes in my town, dirty spic. This is one of the richest enclaves in the world, not far behind Atherton... which also has a water tower.

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Burgers, are you even trying?

>>135614455
i keked. We used to climb them, but I don't understand how you'd even get inside the bowl

>>135608447
Jesus christ, that's terrifying. I saw the thumbnail and thought that looked familiar. You might want to change the filename.

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>>135603518
>these people vote

>>135597605
Zero point energy.

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>>135625690
>>>135597088 (OP)
Yes, yes you can. If you're not a double digit nigger.

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Post your towns water towers

>>135603518
>this post

fuck sake america, get it together.

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Build with that Cold War quality in mind

they don't make 'em like that anymore

>>135631989
>>This faggots never been exposed to Wegmans subs or our hot bar or pizza shops


>not staying in ketosis

NEVER GOING TO MAKE IT

>>135603680
Clearly you haven't been to God tier HEB.

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In some places. They're great. Love 'em. The US has the best watertowers.

>>135597088
Yes because they are subhumans

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>>135597088
>>135597195
>>135597244
>>135597481

Yes and I can relay that my hometown had a checkerboard design on it.

If you get up some high place like a hill or the 6th+ story of a building you can see little white dots all across the horizon, those being water towers for neighboring small towns.

Typically a town has a water tower if its got less than 20,000 people in it, but even the town I live in has 2 of them (one on the northwest side of town, and a big fat green one that sits on the ground on the southeast side)


>>135603518
> water cant be compressed

Go down about 500 feet underwater and tell me how it feels.

Gravity pulls water down, if there's nowhere for it to go it stacks up, and just like stacking bricks the more water is pushing down the more pressure it exerts.

It doesnt matter if the water is in the ocean or if its just a thin vertical pipe 100 feet high, the more water vertically stacked (DEPTH) the more pressure its going to have.

Roughly 15 psi for every 30 feet.

Point of fact everything can be compressed, it just takes more force if its liquid or solid. Also hydraulic (as in, uses liquid) pistons use pressure to exert force too.

>>135597987
Yeah, in other words...

"normal towns you see everywhere which make up the heart and culture of the united states"

>>135598011


It has to do with Machine inefficiency. Its much more efficient to do a little bit at a time than

Also in some cases the intention of having the water tower is to make sure there is a reservoir of saved water in case of drought or if the machines fuck up. Yknow, actual survival conditions.

>>135601698
>>135610605
This only works if you have a piston on top pushing it down while applying force. If you dont have that (and a water tower does not) then its already reached equilibrium and the only reason for the water pressure is due to the column of unsupported water.

Whatever is going down the pipe is not supported, whereas all the water being supported by the bottom sides of the water tower (is supported).

>>135614378
i lol'd at that. thanks.