I just went on rotation to Germany and I see these knobs in weird places around the barracks. What are they for?

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1. To enable or disable waterflow.

   If you turn them down, e.g. There is no waterflow in the kitchen.

2. Blue for cold water

   Red for hot water

   It turns the water on and off…..

3. These are central water valves to shut off cold and hot water for the apartment or part of it. That way you can work on appliances without having to cut the whole building from water.

4. Theses are shutoff valves for hot and cold water. You can close the waterlines for the room or even your whole flat with them.

5. Those are stopcocks

6. Blue one for chilled Jägermeister and red one for hot redwine.

7. They are central cutoffs, like, you never touch them unless you want to go plumbing on your faucet or dishwasher connection.