to stop the flow

Posted by Ryan (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) on 7 February 2007 in Business & Industry.

We visited the Palacio de Aguas Corrientes (Palace of Running Water) today, having the morning off as we did. The Palace was built to house the huge, extremely ugly, one-(giant)-room water repository (built to hold the 72,300,000 litres that designers expected would be enough for all the porteños).

Completed in 1895, it apparently was enough for some time. I'm not sure if it's still running - it was a private enterprise until last year, when the government took it over - but the building it's housed in was done up gorgeously on the outside to fit in with the high-class neighbourhood. Pictures of that will follow sometime in the future.

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