How does running water reach the higher floors of skyscrapers?

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I don’t really know how plumbing works but there’s no way it just makes it all the way up in one shot without gravity interfering, right?

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pumps can only push water up so far before it becomes a struggle (inefficient) to fight against the weight of the water pushing down. like in a deep mine, there will be a series of water tanks leading up to the top. a pump would only have to push the water to the first tank, where the second pump would push it to the third tank, and the third one up again etc.

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