Talk:Dunwall/@comment-1500935-20190109163039/@comment-16533050-20190109214715

It could be government office or it could be a reservoir powered by a Sokolov machine, or as in the case of my home town, a series of water towers built throughout the city.

Before modern pumping methods, the steam-driven pumps that were used to send water throughout the city created large surges in pressure, often causing the pipes to rattle and shake. This also caused multiple-story houses to have difficulty getting water to upper floors. Standpipes (large vertical pipes in which a column of water rose and fell to prevent surges) were built to equalize water pressure. For aesthetic purposes, towers were built to hide the standpipes.

Originally there were some 500 of these in my city, currently three such buildings still exist (out of seven for the entire country). The tower closest to me sits in a park that is owned by the St. Louis Water Division.

So, while the Water Division is an agency within the gov't, they indeed have property and a location.

This is similar to the Nevada Irrigation District which owns a system of ten reservoirs and seven hydroelectric plants - a government entity that has different properties.