A pumping station, also known as a pump room in the context of drilling and drinking water etc., is a facility containing the pumps and equipment used to pump fluids from one place to another. They are used in various infrastructure systems such as supplying water to canals, draining low-lying lands

Pumping water is a fundamentally practical skill, much more practical than scooping water by hand or carrying buckets. This is true whether water is drawn from a fresh source, moved to a desired location, purified, used for irrigation, washing or sewage treatment, or used to extract water from a lo