Our water sphere would have a diameter of 1,385 kilometers ... [USGS via Philip Yam] Top image via Shutterstock. Credit: Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; USGS.

At the U.S. Global Survey website, an image shows all the world's water collected in a sphere, shown floating ominously over the continental U.S. About 860 miles wide, it "includes all of the ...

The sphere’s height has been challenged by other water towers, including one in North Carolina.Despite besting the Union sphere by up to 8 feet, the one in North Carolina is considered a ...

Becker, who grew up near the watersphere, runs the World's Tallest Water Sphere blog (worldstallestwatersphere.com). His site is devoted to stories, legends, photos and videos of the watersphere ...

For a perfectly homogeneous object (say a big nonrotating drop of water in space) the geoid would be a sphere. For the Earth, well, it’s what’s shown in the graphic. In other words ...

It is the World’s Tallest Water Sphere, a 212-foot tall tower which stands at the bustling convergence of the Parkway and routes 22 and 82, where millions of motorists view it each year ...

The owner of the water sphere, New Jersey American Water, is planning to demolish the 61-year-old structure. It’s a well-recognized feature of the landscape along the Garden State Parkway and ...

Isabella Tramontin recalls as a young child peering up at the tall water sphere in Union Township while her family was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Garden State Parkway. The 21-year ...