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  2. Water pumping - Wikipedia

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    In day-to-day situations, available water is often contaminated, unhealthy, or even naturally poisonous, so that it is necessary to pump potable water from lower levels to higher levels, where it can be of use. A fresh water source in a lower stream, river, pond, or lake is often pumped to higher ground for irrigation, livestock, cooking ...

  3. Pumping station - Wikipedia

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    This pumps water from the nearby River Avon to the canal using pumps driven by a waterwheel which is powered by the river. [2] Where no external water supply is available, back pumping systems may be employed. Water is extracted from the canal below the lowest lock of a flight and is pumped back to the top of the flight, ready for the next boat ...

  4. Columbia Basin Project - Wikipedia

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    Its main purpose of pumping water for irrigation was postponed during World War II in favor of electrical power generation that was used for the war effort. Additional hydroelectric generating capacity was added into the 1970s. The Columbia River reservoir behind the dam was named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Lake in honor of the

  5. Highbank power station - Wikipedia

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    Pumps used to send water from the Rakaia River back up the penstock to the RDR. In 2010, TrustPower (now Manawa Energy) installed a river intake, fish screening, and pumping facilities to deliver the water from the Rakaia River to the RDR using some of the existing Highbank Power Station facilities. The Highbank Power Station site has been ...

  6. California Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    At Edmonston Pumping Plant it is pumped 1,926 ft (587 m) over the Tehachapi Mountains. [7] Water flows through the aqueduct in a series of abrupt rises and gradual falls. The water flows down a long segment, built at a slight grade, and arrives at a pumping station powered by Path 66 or Path 15. The pumping station raises the water, where it ...

  7. Colorado River Aqueduct - Wikipedia

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    The Colorado River Aqueduct, or CRA, is a 242 mi (389 km) water conveyance in Southern California in the United States, operated by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The aqueduct impounds water from the Colorado River at Lake Havasu on the California– Arizona border, west across the Mojave and Colorado deserts to the ...