Post #9985

For the past two days we have talked about hand pumps. Today we'll talk about electric pumps. Electric pumps are called "shallow well", "jet pumps" and "submersible" pumps. If the water table is not lower than 15ft, you can use a shallow well pump to suck water out of the well. A jet pump cheats this a little by pumping water down the well case in a 2nd pipe, doing a u-turn at the bottom and using the momentum of water to suck additional water out of the well. This is not very efficient!