What is "standpipes"

Usage examples of "standpipes".

The British mines, which in my day were guarded so cautiously by the army, had apparently been tapped off as neatly as those illegal standpipes plugged in by private citizens all along the Claudian aqueduct.

In Gloucestershire people were forbidden to water the garden or wash their cars, and there was talk of standpipes and water rationing.

Blue asterisks showed the positions of standpipes, most of them along the banks of the Thames.

They stopped occasionally to drink from the standpipes that dripped into basins by the side of the path, or to rest in the shade of tall stones, great red boulders shot through with streaks of gold and black.

It could rain all it wanted during the winter, but given just three days of good old heartwarming sunshine in July and these jokers would start leaping up and down, and tearing their hair, and sticking in meters and standpipes, and demanding that people should save water by cutting down on their bathing and putting bricks in their water closet cisterns .