Feb. 1—With every faucet we turn, shower we take, or toilet flushed, water miraculously appears from our pipes. But how it gets there is no small feat for water systems in the mountains. The ebb and ...

WEST GREENWICH – Ram Pond, visible through the trees just off the Coney Brook Loop Trail, is named for the ramming sound made by a mechanism that was used in the 1800s to pump water up a steep ...

A hydraulic ram is a clever device invented over 200 years ago that can pump water uphill with no other external source of power except for the water flowing into it and there is a way to take ...