Water Treatment Plant needs drinking water?

[apd1004]

Am I the only one that thinks the Water Treatment Plant should be exempt from a connection to a drinking water substation for the workers there? That's where they make the drinking water after all.

[ryantheskinny]

still has to be connected to the potable water network, this is not as odd as it sounds.

[MrKrabs]

One example from RL.
Wind Turbines which produces electricity need electricity themselves to operate.

[esbenmf]

And the treatment plant might not produce clean enough to drink, but just to industry.

[Thomas]

esbenmf a écrit :

And the treatment plant might not produce clean enough to drink, but just to industry.

What?

[esbenmf]

You can decide how clean water the treatment plant produces (change the cleanliness percentage). That way you can produce say 85% clean water for your chemical factory, or 90 for another factory, or 97% for drinking water / food factory.

[moa]

apd1004 a écrit :

Am I the only one that thinks the Water Treatment Plant should be exempt from a connection to a drinking water substation for the workers there? That's where they make the drinking water after all.

You will notice that one worker may produce only 10m³ of water while 2 people produce 40m³, 3 will do 60m³ and so on.
I guess drinking water is produced by the first person for the plant, no need to have a substation. Building one anyway does not change the production of the single worker nor the production rate with more people employed.

[MG83]

water treated in the treatment plant is not potable :> its just poisonous soup turned into dirt soup :p

[potski]

esbenmf a écrit :

And the treatment plant might not produce clean enough to drink, but just to industry.

Why treat it all then? You can easily get 90-95% untreated water quality from a well. Perfectly OK for things like a Concrete Plant.

Isn't the only factory that needs better than that the Food Factory? It needs higher quality than the workers in the treatment plant need to make their cup of coffee and wash their hands. So, yes, they can drink their own production. And clearly do, when it leaves the Treatment Plant goes into a Substation a few metres away and then comes back into the Treatment Plant for them to consume. The OP is only suggesting that there is no need for that additional water substation.

[The Mustachioed Marxist]

potski a écrit :

esbenmf a écrit :

And the treatment plant might not produce clean enough to drink, but just to industry.

Why treat it all then? You can easily get 90-95% untreated water quality from a well. Perfectly OK for things like a Concrete Plant.

Isn't the only factory that needs better than that the Food Factory? It needs higher quality than the workers in the treatment plant need to make their cup of coffee and wash their hands. So, yes, they can drink their own production. And clearly do, when it leaves the Treatment Plant goes into a Substation a few metres away and then comes back into the Treatment Plant for them to consume. The OP is only suggesting that there is no need for that additional water substation.

If you have highly polluted land, you may have to treat water for for fabric, chemical planet, etc. This water is not high enough quality to drink. So the plant must be connected by substation to a source of water clean enough to drink.

Getting clean enough water from a well assumes the land isn't polluted. That will not always be the case.

[MG83]

This post shows how environmentally unfriendly humanity are . No one cares to pollute the rivers :D

[potski]

The Mustachioed Marxist a écrit :

potski a écrit :

Why treat it all then? You can easily get 90-95% untreated water quality from a well. Perfectly OK for things like a Concrete Plant.

Isn't the only factory that needs better than that the Food Factory? It needs higher quality than the workers in the treatment plant need to make their cup of coffee and wash their hands. So, yes, they can drink their own production. And clearly do, when it leaves the Treatment Plant goes into a Substation a few metres away and then comes back into the Treatment Plant for them to consume. The OP is only suggesting that there is no need for that additional water substation.

If you have highly polluted land, you may have to treat water for for fabric, chemical planet, etc. This water is not high enough quality to drink. So the plant must be connected by substation to a source of water clean enough to drink.

Getting clean enough water from a well assumes the land isn't polluted. That will not always be the case.

My Republic has ALOT of land. Finding a bit of land up a hill (to allow gravity to make the water flow rather than pumps) that is not highly polluted is not difficult. I would not dig a well inside a city, even if was going to treat it. The more ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it is in the first place the more expensive it is for the chemicals you need. 3-400 metres away from residences and industry should be enough to get decent water, even for people to drink, if you are prepared to accept some sickness.

[Král Šumavy]

I have come across this issue after constructing a water well with treatment plant (85% water quality output) for chemical industry, even after building water substation close to treatment plant it still complained about insufficient water quality and health of the workers went down (big water well works fine). It would be best to make both bulding "same" - remove need for drinking water for this plant or make them connectable to water network, current situation does not make sense.