Water well pump

Water well pump

A water well pump is a pump that is used in extracting water from a water well. There are many makes of pumps, the foremost being Franklin Electric (American), and Pedrollo (Italian).

They include different kinds of pumps, yet most of them are submersible pumps:

* manual pumpless/hand pump wells requiring a human operator
* mechanical or rotary pump requiring mechanical parts to pump water
* solar water pumps
* DC Submersible Well Pump
* Pumps driven by air as used by the Amish

The pump replaces the use of a bucket and pulley system to extract water.

ee also

* Water resources
* Hydrology
* Pumping station

External links

* [http://www.popularmechanics.com/home_improvement/how_it_works/1275136.html?page=1&c=y Water well pump article]


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