guide to sewage and water system

[Lucas]

really struggling about it, anyone has an clear explanation about how these systems work?

[Silent_Shadow]

Basically:

Have a pump between water sources, treatment plants. and water towers.
Also use pumps if the pipe goes to a point higher than it began (including water tower height).

Water in = Sewage out.

Sewage pipes need a constant angle to flow. Use pumps to create this effect if needed (go downhill if possible), otherwise pumps aren't needed.

Sewage Treatment plants remove up to a large portion of pollution from the sewage.
Raw sewage is very polluting.

All sewage needs to be dumped, treated or not. No recycling.

[Highbrow]

Water well > pump > water purification plant > pump > water tower > (pump sometimes) >water distribution buildings

Sewage building > Sewage outflow (needs to be downhill)

[LivingFood]

Does anyone know if factories of all types require drinking water and sewage? They seem to operate regardless. Is there a health penalty or something if you don't hook up factories to water/sewage?

[barry.zandstra]

Every workplace and every home requires water. Not having it reduces productivity.

[NkosiJama]

There's a substantial reduction in productivity for not having water/sewage to a workplace

[High King Lemur]

Not every building requires water & sewage - check the building tooltip if it has a "Max daily water consumption". That can also help you plan water pipe capacity.

[GeeBee]

You also dont need to use pumps all the time - it depends on the height difference between source building and destination building. As an example, if you pump to a large water tower situated on the top of a hill then you can use gravity to flow the water to other buildings at lower heights

[Daviana]

pretty much everything has been covered - gravity matters, if you can't use gravity then use pumps. pretty much anywhere that has workers also requires water, and anything that requires drinking water will also require sewage. crucially, if you don't provide sewage outflow, the building's septic tank will overflow and will, on top of reducing productivity, result in illness. at least from what i've observed, of course...

[GeeBee]

Agreed. Technical services will cover industrial buildings in terms of removing sewage but only removes the sewage that is the result of the waste created from the consumption of drinking water. It won't pick up sewage as a result of industrial activities.

[Mordiaky]

Originally posted by Lusca:

really struggling about it, anyone has an clear explanation about how these systems work?

I see everyone has a very good answer in one way or another.

it took me a bit to understand what I was doing and it all came down to gravity! thats it!

lets start with water.

drinking water:
I go well > water pump > water treatment > pump > water Tower or substations.

If you go with water towers, the Above water tower will need a pump to fill it, however, water going out will not. it uses gravity. as long as the tower is taller then said building you are providing water too.

so you can do water tower > sub station

None drinking water:
well > water pump > source ( concrete plant for example)
be careful as some plants need clean water like the fabric factory.

Sewage:

Sub station > sewage drain

Now you have to consider height and gravity on this.. Always run your sewage down a slope if you can.

in some cases you have to go up hill, this is what the sewage height connector stations are for. you can adjust from 5 meter down to 25 if I remember right.

only use them to start a new line back at surface level.

Now your line can go deep and I mean very deep underground.. but doing this is very costly and time consuming as you construction office will need to dig that VERY deep trench. try to stay close to surface all the way to outlet.

hope this helps..

use F3 for viewing, F2 for height and depth, and always use Q and E to adjust the depth of the trenched pipe.