Berlin waterpumps

We were walking down Leberstrasse towards Babette's apartment when we came across this old disused waterpump on the footpath, I was dumbfounded, this is what I expected to see in an African village, not the German capital.

The pumps still work, however, the water is now not drinkable, this was not always the case. In the immediate period after the defeat of Germany in world war two, the German capital lay in ruins from strategic bombing and then later fighting street to street. Essential services such as water, electricity and gas were damaged to the point of non operation. People lined up in the streets to pull water manually from the system as the main pumps providing flow and pressure were damaged.

In this older section of Berlin, the housing and streets maintain pre-war construction, I was informed the buildings in the street and immediate surrounds are used for filming period movies.