What is a well pump?
A well pump is a pump that uses suction and pressure to produce something from a well, usually a liquid substance. The most common types of well pumps are those that are used for water wells and oil wells. For the home user, the most common well pump used will be a water well pump. Well pumps come in various sizes. Residential well pumps may have less than one horsepower of energy in order to produce water. However, a commercial well pump often will contribute, along with other pumps, to supplying water for the entire community. Therefore, much more power will be needed. Most current pumps are powered by electricity. However, there may times when there is no electricity or maybe a time when the well pump was installed before a point when there was electricity. A hand well pump is then needed to bring the water up from underground. In most cases, if they haven’t been used for a significant period of time, they will require priming. An electric well pump will often not require priming ev
When the well is drilled, the water just sits at the bottom of the pipe unless you have an Artesian well. A well pump is dropped into the well so that it can pump the water up to the surface. The pump is in the water at the bottom of a long pipe that is connected to the water pipes coming into your house. Well water sometimes goes through a water filter attached to the pipe. When you turn on the faucet or wash clothes, the well pump pushes water into the pipes in your house. The well has a cap on it to keep out bugs, bacteria, and other things that will hurt the water. How safe is well water? Well water taps into groundwater. Most of the time, our sources said that well water was safer to drink because it goes through its own filtration. Water seeps through dirt, sand, gravel, and rocks and cleans itself naturally. A demonstration of this is our water filter experiment. This doesn’t mean that you drill a well and just use the water. Some wells tap into contaminated water and can’t be u
