How do you hook up water pipes to a custom pump?

[City Builder]

So, we're trying to make a super water pump that would dry out lakes and rivers in a reasonable amount of time (at the expense of massive amounts of electricity). We use the existing water pump as the template and change the stats of our "mega pumper" to what we want to try, but when we place it in the game there's no way to hook up the water pipe to it, there is no snap point, so it never works. What needs to be done to create that water pipe connection point on our mega pumper?

Thanks

 

[Carlzilla]

For water pumps, make sure to check "use existing props and decorations" when selecting the object type. I wish this same trick worked for treatment plants...