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Pumped water has been used for years to store energy. As the article states, it's not about efficiency, but about alternatives: What are the options, what are the characteristics and costs of these options?
A water tower is not very big when talking about municipal power generation.
but the potential energy can be used:
Granted, they are using excess pressure within the system to run the generators. Nonetheless, I have seen city water delivered at 80 PSI (had to install a pressure reducer)!