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How Does a Hydraulic Ram Pump Work?

A hydraulic ram is a clever device invented over 200 years ago that can pump water uphill with no other external source of ...
WEST GREENWICH – Ram Pond, visible through the trees just off the Coney Brook Loop Trail, is named for the ramming sound made by a mechanism that was used in the 1800s to pump water up a steep ...
Feb. 12—A pump station that's the workhorse of moving water uphill to mountainside homes in Waynesville is getting a $225,000 retrofit. The pump station is the first stop in a chain of six pumps that ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Water has flowed from Northern California's snow-capped peaks to the south's parched cities ever since the California Aqueduct was built in the 1960s. Now, amid one of the worst ...
In Tucson, we live in a bowl. That’s just our geography. From downtown it’s uphill in every direction except toward Marana. It costs a lot of money to pump and hold that water uphill. Not just for ...