Waterworks

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

This centuries-old canal known as the Cuckoo Dyke has a staircase of locks suitable for a giant.

This Colombo wetland is an unlikely wildlife haven just outside the capital city.

An eerie former warehouse turned cistern turned movie set.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

An engineering masterpiece, or “Scheme of Madness?”

This grand hydraulic installation has provided water for townspeople since the Middle Ages.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

A rotating bridge that carries a little canal over a larger one.