Most maintenance and operations personnel who work with centrifugal pumps have been warned repeatedly that starting a pump dry can scorch and permanently damage the seals or packing, and that pumping won’t begin if the suction liquid is below the pump’s suction lift. Then they encounter a “self-priming” pump and begin to question all those warnings.  Most maintenance and operations personnel who work with centrifugal pumps have been warned repeatedly that starting a pump dry can…

If a recent proposal mooted by some city municipal councillors sees the light of day, residents living in the southern sectors may be able to install shallow hand pumps within their residential premises. That all the samples of shallow water taken from different locations a few months back failed the test of purity does not seem to have deterred the councillors proposing the move. Issues like keeping checks to ensure that the water is not used…

On Sunday night, Israel water company, Mekorot—with which the national Dutch water company just cut off relations for its “violations of international law”—sent special pumps to Gaza in order to deal with the devastating flooding, the IDF Spokesperson tweeted. According to Ma’an, Israel has been pumping industrial diesel donated by Qatar into the Gaza Strip on Sunday morning. The move is part of a temporary agreement to ease the blockade following days of record flooding that…

Water pumps are an integral part of any manufacturing facility and China is dominating the world in terms of total industrial output. As a result, the water pumps market in China has been reporting fastest growth in comparison to other developed or emerging markets. The country is becoming drier every year as the water table is falling sharply. It has been observed that the fresh water resources declined by 13% in China during 2000-09. The declining…