How to use water treatment plants?

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

So I decided to load a premade town and place a couple of water treatment plants there, the first one reduced water pollution by over two thirds while the second only reduced it by another quarter of the initial amount, no where near as much as the first: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=844221295 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=844227283
This doesn't seem right to me and I had a similiar experiance in another town yesterday.

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First responce, completely useless, just great...

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Originally posted by richnathaniel9419:

First responce, completely useless, just great...

Go to either Simtropolis.com or SC4Devotion.com if you really want sensible people who can help you out as this forum here on Steam is absolutely abysmal.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Okay, I'll give it a shot at least.

[alan85224]

as long as the water in the city where your people live is clean youre good to go. Ag produces a lot of water pollution, so dont run pipes to farms. They dont need it. farms dont mind pollution, neither does dirty industry. Manufacturing and Hi tech demand clean water tho. My point is its cheaper and easier do dezone your farmland rather than fight a losing fight to have zero water pollution.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

I've had successful cities with a large dirty industry sector which have been rich enough to afford as many water treatment plants as it takes to get zero water pollution, normally when I'm not able to afford such things, I just have separate water supplies, none of this is the issue or why I created this thread.

As detailed in the OP, those screenshots are from a premade farming town which I loaded to test water treatment plants in due to seemly odd occurrences the day before, the result as shown was that the second water treatment plant was far less effective at reducing water pollution despite it (, the southern one) being built probably closer to the source of water pollution than the first one (built west of the farms). This kind of thing shouldn't be happening and I want to know how to prevent it from happening in a couple of manufactoring cities I want to start building soon, you yourself have just said how manufactoring industry demands clean water, increasing the importance of getting an answer to the question.

[Techon]

Lets go by the assumption that the water treatment plants were not connect by a pipeline. As I am sure that those of you on this discussion may or may not have been playing Simcity 4 for a long time. By connecting the water treatment plants by pipeline together they should be providing water treatment by a determinable factor, not an eliminator. Water treatment plants do not elminate water pollution, they treat the problem by minimizing it. Each additional one treats the numerical quanity of polution by an additional factor. Now this is the real equation but lets say every plant removes 10% of your current water pollution. Which is created by your Industrial or Sanitation zones. Water Pollution can also occur by your powerstation. So back to the main point at hand. Observe how much one Water Treatment Plant absorbs before placing another. Treating Water can be expensive. If you wish to save money build your industry, farms, sanitation, and power away from your residential and commercial zones.

[Los.Injurus.Bob.Blunderton]

You can also build the industry on it's own tile altogether. So long as you don't mind going into and out of your cities as you need to go back and forth many times between them to get them to grow properly, then they'll fall off rapidly. Building solely residential with some commercial on one large tile with a good enough transport network can net you nicely over 4 million people.
Water treatment plants that cure say, 50% of the water pollution, well the 2nd one curing 50% would only cure 25%, the third 12.5%, the next only 6.25%.

[WhatWillTheNextDowndateBring?]

Originally posted by Techron:

Lets go by the assumption that the water treatment plants were not connect by a pipeline. As I am sure that those of you on this discussion may or may not have been playing Simcity 4 for a long time. By connecting the water treatment plants by pipeline together they should be providing water treatment by a determinable factor, not an eliminator. Water treatment plants do not elminate water pollution, they treat the problem by minimizing it. Each additional one treats the numerical quanity of polution by an additional factor. Now this is the real equation but lets say every plant removes 10% of your current water pollution. Which is created by your Industrial or Sanitation zones. Water Pollution can also occur by your powerstation. So back to the main point at hand. Observe how much one Water Treatment Plant absorbs before placing another. Treating Water can be expensive. If you wish to save money build your industry, farms, sanitation, and power away from your residential and commercial zones.

That's a whole lot of nothing right there, but I do wish to make it clear how I did connect those water treatment plants to the water supply, thanks for assuming otherwise.

Originally posted by Beamng.drive Cyka Blyatt:

You can also build the industry on it's own tile altogether. So long as you don't mind going into and out of your cities as you need to go back and forth many times between them to get them to grow properly, then they'll fall off rapidly. Building solely residential with some commercial on one large tile with a good enough transport network can net you nicely over 4 million people.
Water treatment plants that cure say, 50% of the water pollution, well the 2nd one curing 50% would only cure 25%, the third 12.5%, the next only 6.25%.

Yes, I am already aware of being able to built industry in neighbouring lots, but thanks anyway. However as far as the 50% water pollution thing, that's just plan wrong, what you're describing is one of those infinite reductions where it will never reach zero, meanwhile I've built a city before with 22K dirty industry jobs and 12K manufactoring jobs with two waste-to-energy plants which had zero water pollution after building 11 water treatment plants, 10 for industry & 1 for the CBD. Here's a screenshot of it: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=850414062 Plus even if you and the other guy are right water pollution can't be elimiated and therefore there's still a tiny amount of water pollution which isn't registering, the first screenshot in my OP proves it isn't 50% reduction at all. The first screenshot in my OP shows water pollution starting at 230, first plant takes it down to 70 or a 160 reduction which is close to 70%, the 2nd plant reduces it to around 10 or a 60 reduction which is around 25% of the initial amount or 35% as effective as the 1st plant.

[alan85224]

i just dont see how thats anything but overkill

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Originally posted by alan85224:

Manufacturing and Hi tech demand clean water tho.

Yet you still wont help by explaining how to archive that.

[MapleLeaf42]

I've never figured out what the water treatment plants were for, and reading this was helpful.