Water layout

[woodshed]

Hey, when and what is the correct way to add water to your city and the correct to lay out your water pipe line system to cost benefit your city? I'm laying pumps and pipes around but whats the most cost efficient way to do so? Thanks in advance

[slovenian89]

Laying the pipes under the roads is the best, and keep pumps as far away from industrial zones as possible.

[JuddTheGreat]

Make sure you space them so that you aren't laying down too much pipe that the water from each overlaps. Obviously don't space them so far apart that zones in between are red.

[antstubell]

As already said spacing is important. When beginning a new city Sims won't complain about not having water at first. You can leave it for a SIm year without a problem while you build up your city. When you do add water the city will get a massive pop. boost. I put water pumps directly next to power stations and once built go into the Utilities Tab and drop, just a littlem the amount spent on sanitation. It saves a few quid and if you drop it too much water pipes will burst, if this happens just up the amount spent and the sims will eventually fix the burst pipes.

[jdenm8]

I'll contradict JuddTheGreat's advice straight off the bat, make sure there is plenty of overlap (You'll want about every tile supplied by two separate pipes) since the supplied area decreases as more load is put onto your water grid. An every-tile-is-covered-once system might have coverage issues at 50% load, but a double coverage system can go right up to 85% load before the drop in coverage becomes a problem.

[mschol]

every 12 blocks on the grid i lay one pipe, i do this because it effectifly covers all ground..

Originally posted by jdenm8:

I'll contradict JuddTheGreat's advice straight off the bat, make sure there is plenty of overlap (You'll want about every tile supplied by two separate pipes) since the supplied area decreases as more load is put onto your water grid. An every-tile-is-covered-once system might have coverage issues at 50% load, but a double coverage system can go right up to 85% load before the drop in coverage becomes a problem.

in al the years i played the game this never ever happend to me