When you're driving around most cities and towns, the water tower standing high above most everything not only lets you know where you are, but it can also give you a feel for the place.

It’s out with the old. The Town of Hempstead is ditching its decades-old rusted and dilapidated water tower with a “state-of-the-art” replacement because it’s cheaper than giving it a facelift, ...

A rusty metal beam bearing the name “Carnegie” is seen in the rubble of a demolished water tower at South Osage Street and West Pacific Avenue in Independence. Kendrick Calfee Smith ...