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Waterladder pump

Okay kiddo, do you know what a waterladder pump is? It's a special kind of pump that uses water to move water! Let me explain.

So, imagine you have a tall ladder and a bucket of water at the top of it. Gravity wants the water to go down, right? But what if we could use that force to our advantage? That's where the waterladder pump comes in.

At the bottom of the ladder, there is a tube leading to a pump. When the pump is turned on, it sucks water up the tube and into the bottom of the ladder. The water wants to flow down, thanks to gravity, but it can't because there's no way out at the bottom.

So, we wait for the water to reach the top of the ladder, and once it does, it spills into another tube leading to a container. As the water flows down the tube, it creates suction that pulls more water up into the bottom of the ladder. And the cycle repeats itself over and over again!

So, in short, the waterladder pump is a pump that uses gravity and the natural flow of water to pump more water! It's pretty cool, huh?
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