RE:RE:RE:Pumping Progress -"Hopes Fade For Trapped Miners In Burkina"Given that they are trying to reach the only place people could be alive, and are short on air, food and water, I expect that they are pumping water as fast as possible.
As you get deeper into the mine though, the pressure head increases and slows the pumping rate.
It's kind of sad though that this hasn't raised an international effort to bring in pumps and pipelines and really pump this water down faster.