The cheapest drink in town?No, it isn't Koolaid or some inexpensive wine. It's plain old tap water straight from the tanks of Selma Water Works.
The city has six wells and the capacity to pump 8 million gallons per day while average usage is about half that amount.
nice blog
ReplyDeleteThere you go. Nice shot. The water tower and the slogan on it are nice.
ReplyDeleteWe used to have our own wells but now buy water from nearby Dayton, Ohio. We gave up that part of our independence and there are some who think it was a mistake. And there is talk about bringing back our own again.
Abraham Lincoln
It is really impressive. beautiful photograph.
ReplyDeleteToday before and after the principal place of Martel.
My blog photographs on the town of Martel
Good ole American water towers...you don't see these in Europe!
ReplyDeleteGood tap water is precious. A proper celebration of this resource. I like our water towers too.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments. When I was a child, we never even thought about the possibility of a water shortage. Now, in many places it is real. I have friends who live near Atlanta, and there are so many people and so much more development that water usage is rationed often.
ReplyDeleteNice information....if I had posted a watertower I wouldn't have bothered to get the full story...nice.
ReplyDeleteI love that green water tank.
ReplyDeleteSelma, NC gets it water from deep wells. During a water shortage we can purchase water form Smithfield. They pump from the neuse river.
A green water tower
ReplyDeleteit is rather rare
Hi there! Thanks for your comment over at Toruń DP. Here in Europe...we hold most of our water in reservoirs.
ReplyDeleteGreat shot! Now, do you think Johnny Depp may be there coaxing down Leo di Caprio like in What's eating Gilbert Grape ?
ReplyDeleteGreat humour here, I love it!!!
ReplyDeleteSelma aside, I love this photograph for photography's sake.
ReplyDeleteThe slogan alone makes it fantastic, and the tones of green are just... they pull you into the photo. Really- nice work here.
Thank you all for the comments. This photo just goes to show me that sometimes a photographer never knows what the audience will like!
ReplyDeleteI didn't take this picture for a while, because I didn't like the industrial green color of the water tank. Then, while I too liked the clever slogan, that shade of green made me hold it until I was running low on photos!
Thanks for liking it and proving me wrong!