Podolí Waterworks (in

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: ''Podolská vodárna'') is a big

water supply Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes. Public water supply systems are crucial to properly functioning societies. Th ...

equipment located in capital city of the

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, neighborhood Podolí. More precisely, it is located in

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on the right side of

Vltava The Vltava ( , ; ) is the longest river in the Czech Republic, a left tributary of the Elbe River. It runs southeast along the Bohemian Forest and then north across Bohemia, through Český Krumlov, České Budějovice, and Prague. It is com ...

river between

Vyšehrad Vyšehrad (German: ''Wyschehrad,'' ''Prager Hochburg'', English: "upper castle") is a historic fort in Prague, Czech Republic, just over 3 km southeast of Prague Castle, on the east bank of the Vltava River. It was probably built in the 1 ...

and Swimming stadium Podolí (''Plavecký stadium Podolí''). The current complex was built between 1925–1929 on the place where former water supply infrastructure was located. In 1990s, it was completely reconstructed. From 2003, it serves only as backup water source in case of failure of other treatment plants. The complex was built in

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style and it is protected as a

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. It also serves as a Prague Waterworks Museum.

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* {{WikidataCoord Infrastructure completed in 1929 Prague 4 Museums in Prague Buildings and structures in Prague Neoclassical architecture Industrial buildings in the Czech Republic Water supply infrastructure 1929 establishments in Czechoslovakia 20th-century architecture in the Czech Republic