They are to pump seawater back along the 30-inch pipelines to a point north of the Ahmadi field's tank farm.
Phoenix connected hoses to an engine company and to two ladder trucks and commenced pumping seawater from the bay.
It is constructed by pumping seawater into a contained area and allowing the water to freeze.
There's a windmill down there that's probably the saltworks, pumping seawater into the pans, or grinding the salt itself: how the devil does one make salt?
These could be up to 40 ft long and were fitted through the decks of a vessel to pump seawater to the deck.
Electrical upwelling pumps continuously pump fresh seawater into the bags, and portable liquid oxygen tanks are used to provide oxygen to the cultured fish.
The windmills for which the point were named were used by two brothers to pump seawater into vats to be used for harvesting salt.
People fell upon them, trying to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, pumping seawater from their bellies, but it was no use.
They pump seawater in at one end, and at the other one pipe yields fresh water, and the other heavy brine.
By 1000 AD, windmills were used to pump seawater for salt-making in China and Sicily.