You might presume that pump manufacturing is a boring business: an industrial vocation devoid of danger, passion and international intrigue. You would be wrong.
When storms strike and sewer lines break, when crops wither and drinking water dwindles, people often turn to the pump industry for help. And the people who build and supply those pumps — at least at South Florida-based Moving Water Industries — travel the world from the rain-drenched streets of Bangkok to the beer-barley fields of Mexico.
Work in Florida can be equally exotic, sometimes involving alligators and other dangerous critters.
