Water Makes No Sense

[Steele]

So I followed the Tutorial. After doing so, my water stations are saying they have no water. Without water they won't work..... They are the water, so how do they need it?

[Coldtea]

Originally posted by VR Dog:

So I followed the Tutorial. After doing so, my water stations are saying they have no water. Without water they won't work..... They are the water, so how do they need it?

if you mean purification they need wells and power to put into them, also remember to add pumping stations so the water actually moves

[Novu]

First you need a water well.
Then you need to pump the water out of the well and send it to a treatment plant.
Then you need another pump to get the water moving out to the substations.
It all has to be connected by pipes with enough capacity to meet the needs of your city.

Well (pipes) Pump (Pipes) Treatment (Pipes) Pump (Pipes) Substation.

[Trackstar]

youve gotta use a pump after every step to make it flow. also, as a tip, just use the big pump instead of the switches. much easier.

[Steele]

Well like I said I did the tutorial. I had a pump after every station. The pumps said they were functioning normally, but the water facilities wouldn't allow workers because they had no water... I was like....... YOU are the water! Lol

[Silent_Shadow]

You can still have workers there, they will just work at half of the efficiency they would have had with water.

[Steele]

Ohhhhh okay. Just making sure. Still I'm not entirely sure how to provide water for them. Do I have to have another water facility already up and running to give to them? Because if that's the case then it's a never-ending chain of water supplies lol.

[Silent_Shadow]

Water treatment plants provide themselves with drinking water if the quality setting is high enough. For other buildings, you can provide drinking water by water trucks in technical service buildings or by a water substation supplied by a pump.

Keep in mind that water consumption (and thus sewage generation) will rise spectacularly if you supply water by a pressurized (i.e. has a pumped supply) water station. Water by truck is the cheap option.

[RyanFireball]

Originally posted by VR Dog:

So I followed the Tutorial. After doing so, my water stations are saying they have no water. Without water they won't work..... They are the water, so how do they need it?

From The Soviet Republic Wiki:
https://workers-resources.fandom.com/wiki/Water
r/Tom

[Bufnitza]

Originally posted by Silent_Shadow:

Water treatment plants provide themselves with drinking water if the quality setting is high enough. For other buildings, you can provide drinking water by water trucks in technical service buildings or by a water substation supplied by a pump.

Keep in mind that water consumption (and thus sewage generation) will rise spectacularly if you supply water by a pressurized (i.e. has a pumped supply) water station. Water by truck is the cheap option.

What is the logic behind the difference? I haven't given it much thought because I have almost never used trucks and Tech Svc to supply the buildings, but I would have expected the consumption of water and generation of sewage to be similar in both cases.

[Silent_Shadow]

For some reason, citizens will use a lot more water if it is pressurized, which you only get from a height difference (usually) or from a pump. Since they use more water, they also create more sewage.

If you want to minimize your citizen's water usage, deliver water by truck. When you are ready to graduate from trucks to a pipe system, upgrade your sewage system first so sewage doesn't pile up and pollute the area.