How Infrastructure Works

How Infrastructure Works

Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

Deb Chachra

The water doesn’t just flow downhill: the California Aqueduct, for example, goes up and over the Tehachapi Mountains, thanks to the Edmonston pumping station. Fourteen six-story-high pumps can push two million gallons of water per minute up two thousand feet at the highest single-lift plant in the world, helping to make the California State Water Project the single largest consumer of energy in the state.
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