And where's the inlet for the water? And where's the outlet? And why did the Egyptians maintain the Nilometer for centuries if they weren't simply relying on the out-of-season flood of the Nile to support their agriculture (and why did they write about doing that, but wrote literally NOTHING about pumps?). Thanks Monkey Face.
See? Our great minds trump the inanity of pumps.
;o]
‘Face