Water Tower

A Water Tower is an elevated structure that supplies water to cities. The tower supports a water tank which is constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a water system supply for the distribution of water and is also used for drinking water. The water inside the tank can be used as emergency storage for fire protection. Sometimes the term standpipe is called a water tower. Water towers often operate in conjunction with underground or surface service reservoirs.

Water towers are even able to supply water even in power outages, because they heavily rely on hydrostatic pressure, which is produced by elevation of water, which is due to gravity. However, they are not able to pump for a long time because the pumps still run on electricity and so water towers rely on them to refill the tank. If the power is out, the tank will not be refilled because the pumps run on electricity.

Water towers of different kinds have made appearances in several ATBW movies and shows of over the years (sometimes almost always). Some have been famously known for their appearance. They have even appeared in Amory The Bad Woman as well as A Puppet With Small Eyes. The first ATBW made featuring a water tower is Lost In Water (1927), where zach, Jeffery, and Fender have to pump water from the tower and supply it to the city. The tower is located in a facility and the boys fill the trucks up with water.

Amory The Bad Woman
Most notably in the Amory The Bad Woman series, there are several types of water towers in the show, one in Lighthouse City, the Grandview Tower, built in 1930s. The color is Blue And White and in the Grundland Region of Lighthouse City is two more towers also built in the 1930s, one is for hot water and the other is for cold water, and both are for supplying to the Grundland Base only.

Residential Tower
The Residential Tower is responsible for supplying water to the whole city, including all six regions of Lighthouse City, including the capital of the city, Manland. This is also the only water tower in Lighthouse City and the first and only one ever built. Prior to this, it had a refill tank.

There are several rumors stating that Lighthouse City once shared towers with Armortown's water supply, though none of this is true as Armortown had never had its plain, white, and more modernized towers back then. Though the central tower, large and built sometime in the early 1930s, that also was never used either. The entire rumor is false as neither Armortown nor Lighthouse City has ever had water towers before the 1930s except refill tanks.

Grundland Defense Base
The Grundland Defense Base in the series has two towers to be exact. The one with the thinner pipe below the tank is the one with hot water as where the one with the more thicker pipe below its tank is the one with the cold water. Both function only to the base as the main one is unable to supply water to the base. They are both brown (rusted outside to rain) and are visibly seen from the base in the show. They were both built in the 1930s, the same decade the general water tower and the base were built.

The base was built in the 1930s as a defense point from invaders and intruders who tried to potentially take over the island during that time and so the base was built to prevent any further attacks within Lighthouse City from ever happening. Zach, Hahah, Susan, and Tarrant would often hide inside the base and defend the city from the other four protagonists, Amory, Principal, Lava, and Lava Drop, which were main antagonists in the show.

Flash Day
The Water Tower in Flash Day is a plain white tower with Loutown written on the tank. The tower was built in 1971 and has been standing there since then with no issues whatsoever. Only cleaning was done inside the tank and the Loutown water tower is the town's main tower, which holds most of the water.

The city has two smaller towers, one near the school baseball field and another one at the farm.

Amory The Bad Woman 112: The Unusual Road trip
In the 2012 ATBW Movie Amory The Bad Woman 112: The Unusual Road trip, there are unusual water towers, which were likely inspired from real life towers. As they get to Woodstock Mountains, they see several unusual ones, including a corn shaped tower, peach shaped tower, watermelon tower, and pumpkin tower, all serving water to their respective municipalities within the area. Another area with unusual towers is Endover, Woodstock Mountains, where there is one big tank as the main source, but there is another spot in the same region with 8 different tanks close to each other, almost identical to that of Grundland's water tower. The main tower is located closer to the west of the highway the characters are traveling on in the city while the grouping ones are further east. At one point, Zach decides to stop there at Endover as he sees an ice cream ad displayed on a billboard.

Once there, Zach gets Cotton Candy, Catherine gets Caramel, her daughter gets Fudge, and Ira gets Birthday Cake. While eating outside, in a nearby reservoir near the big tower, they notice how old it is and see how some of the water coming from the tank in a nearby reservoir is rusty and dirty. An elderly man tells them that the water they see coming from the tower contains lead, and he tells them the dangers of the contamination in the town. He said to them the sinks when water comes out are brown due to lead contamination and so the group are immediately alerted and frightened. The man says only Endover is affected by this, though at one point he said 2 years from then almost the entirety of Woodstock Mountain will face a water crisis. Catherine's daughter, however, denies this is true and says it will never happen. This though does not change the fact that the other three are still frightened and want to leave. The man says they still have 2 years left before it actually happens.

Controversy
Since the water crisis in Flint in 2014, rumors started spreading about the prediction of the water crisis. Most of them say that the movie predicted the crisis that would take place two years after the movie came out in 2012. The rumor also predicts the arrests that would be made later on. The studio company that made this movie, however, has stated none of this was ever true and the people arrested in the movie were not city officials, but instead metal scrapers. In fact, none of the metal scrapers in the 2012 movie are even humans at all, but instead beakheads, which in the Amory The Bad Woman franchise, are notorious for numerous situations and crises that have happened in several shows and movies, most notably, the volcanic eruption that occured in the Amory The Bad Woman 40 movie, which was caused by them simply throwing things inside the volcano (though this was mostly never seen except the part of them climbing, which is barely seen when Zach is eating at a restaurant while in the city with Flying Chickens, which in the series, despite their names, actually resemble fish and come in different types and colors.