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[wemb]

Started a new game a while back and decided to get my water supply sorted out on an industrial scale.  Built an island, surrounded the edge with eight waterwheels, and hooked them up do a pair of smoothed, pumping 'staircases' that descended to the bottom level. Had two of them hooked up simultaneously to the pumps, all the walls smoothed and loose rubble cleared all the way down, grates laid and the walls sealed and everything looked fine and it was all running smoothly, till I let some water near it. At which point the left hand 'staircase' pumps exploded and the drain at the top flooded the entire staircase.  This annoyed me greatly.

Any idea what on earth I did wrong?  Do the pumps have to be of a sufficient quality/particular material to cope with pumping on that scale? Did I just feed in too much power?  I can't really understand why introducing water to the system made it explode when before it was fine running on thin air.