Water supply, I'm confused

[StoneRyno]

I have my first city started. I built a gas power plant, zoned 4 6x6 blocks of medium industrial, zoned 3x13 medium comercial, 3x13 light comercial, and 2 3x12 light residencial. All forming a nice rectangle with roads 15x34 in size. The city is building ok but industry and comercial is not filled up. I'm not sure if it is because I have no water at this time or not. But I have been testing to see how to set up the water and if I put a tower or a pump somewhere it doesn't trasport water along the connected pipes. Even when in a square that has power. So I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Once I got things figured out I want to make my actual city. That way learning mistakes aren't ruining things from the start. What am I doing wrong with water? Thanks

[Morkonan]

Just to get the basics out of the way: http://strategywiki.org/wiki/SimCity_4/Water

So, as I interpret it, you have placed a water pump or water tower and it has power and is connected to pipes, but you're not getting any water? That's "shouldn't happen." Regardless of whether Industry needs water or not, your water pipes should be carrying some if they're connected to a water pump or water tower. At least, up to a point. When your city outgrows your current water supply, you might see areas covered by pipes have water shortages, but that should be far along in your city's future and the easy solution is just to plop down another water pump and connect it to the water pipes.

Are you sure your water/utilities are fully funded? Check your budget and be sure that Water is fully funded. If it's not fully funded, your water system will deteriorate and will need to be replaced.

Oh, by the way, you can not place water pumps/towers in zones that have heavy pollution - They will shut down. This could be the problem. Check the pollution for the area that your pump is in and, if it's polluted, then move it to someplace that isn't polluted.

[Pielotap]

It sounds like you might not have the pipes actually connected to the water source. Try dragging pipes directly onto the water source. If that still doesn't work then you might have a severe water shortage so it looks like theirs no water at all. In that case try building more water sources connected to your pipes.

[StoneRyno]

Originally posted by Pillowtap:

It sounds like you might not have the pipes actually connected to the water source. Try dragging pipes directly onto the water source. If that still doesn't work then you might have a severe water shortage so it looks like theirs no water at all. In that case try building more water sources connected to your pipes.

This would be the problem. I can't believe I repeatedly reset and built and was somehow not realizing that the end was not connected to the tower or pump. Thanks much.