Sprinkled across the state, these water towers feature birds and fish, a race car, animals at the Detroit Zoo, and a lot of smiley faces.

The Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department and AWWA's Florida Section have hosted a Model Water Tower Competition for area students for the last eight years.

Whichever outcome you hoped for in yesterday's election, we can probably all agree that it would be nice to take a breather from politics and focus on something happy.

We just read in Star Tribune, the Minnesota Department of Health Drinking Water Protection Program's newsletter, about three water towers in Minneapolis-Saint Paul that had been decorated.