Through my understanding of water and plumbing, water has a pressure behind it. But how is it that water can be held back under pressure in a hose and it not burst a pipe or the hose?
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The pressure in your waterlines is set by your municipal water system or (if you are on a well) your well pump. These are usually set somewhere in the 35 to 100 pounds per square inch (psi) range, so once your pipe or hose pushes back with the same pressure the pressure stops building.
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