ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Tank cascade system

Okay, so imagine you have a lot of water in a big tank, and you need to move it to another tank. But the two tanks are on different levels, so you can’t just pour the water from one into the other. That’s where the tank cascade system comes in.

Basically, you create a series of tanks that are all connected by pipes. Each tank is a bit lower than the one before it. So when you pour water into the first tank, it flows down into the next one, and then down into the next one, and so on until it reaches the final tank.

The really clever part is that each tank has a valve that you can open or close. If one of the tanks gets too full, you can close the valve leading to it and the water will start filling up the next tank. That way, you never have too much water in any one tank, and you can control the flow of water between the tanks.

It’s kind of like playing with blocks – you stack them up in a tower, but if one of the blocks is getting wobbly, you take it out and put it on the next level down instead. That way the tower stays stable and doesn’t fall over.

With the tank cascade system, you can move water from one place to another even if the two places are at different levels, and you can do it safely and efficiently without overflowing any of the tanks. Pretty cool, right?