“Water Is Life” is the message the Greensboro (North Carolina) Water Resources Department wanted to convey to citizens and visitors. So the city did it in a big way, with a bold mural on the domed roof of a 1-million-gallon ground-level water storage tank at the Mitchell Water Treatment Plant.
Featuring a bright pallet of shades of blue, the 124-foot-diameter abstract mural has sharp angles, hexagonal forms, and circular waves appearing as water droplets that suggest water in its natural state. The dome is highly visible to motorists and passersby on a heavily used greenway next to the 24 mgd water
