sewage water into water

[Hyshphahos]

Hello comrades,

i play in realistic mode and i know that reprocessing water is not efficient because of the cost of chemicals.

Even so, I'd like to know whether it's possible to reuse polluted water to transform it into drinking water, and what the difference is between wastewater and water treatment plants.

If it is possible, what is the procedure I need to follow from the sewage tank ?

[Ichangedmynamelol]

I think the idea of sewage water treatment plant is more like "dilute" sewage water so it produce less pollution. It doesn't actually produce water. I don't think there's any way you could turn sewage water into water.

[melkij]

Originally posted by Vorsichtig:

I don't think there's any way you could turn sewage water into water.

Simply.
Draining into a lake, pumping from the surface of the same lake.

Do you know any examples of cities with a closed sewage and drinking water cycle? Except for the International Space Station and the planet as a whole.

[Silent_Shadow]

Water and sewage are just a mix of pure water and waste water. Sewage is just water that has been used, but there is no way in vanilla to convert sewage back into "water," so it has to be dumped or exported.

At a treatment plant, a portion of the water/sewage that is waste water is converted into pure water. For water this raises the quality, which is important for drinking water and meeting the quality requirements for industries. For sewage this reduces the amount of pollution that dumping the sewage creates at the discharge. Each treatment plant can only eliminate so much waste water, so only so much water/sewage can be processed a day; you may need multiple treatment plants in series to maintain a high flow of water/sewage through them.

Due to the simplicity of the pollution system and there being no water flow/diffusion, you can pretty much dump raw sewage straight into a body of water most of the time. If the inlet is far enough, you can even draw fresh water from the same body of water with no loss of quality. The only reasons to purify sewage is for role playing or to preserve land for residential use, tourism, or to source water from.

To dispose of sewage, you need to connect buildings to a sewage network that routes sewage to a discharge point. If you want to reduce the pollution generated, then you can run the sewage through a treatment plant or a series of treatment plants before discharging.

[Beast of War]

You cant connect the sewage system to the drink water system directly, there is no infrastructure module or building that does that. Sewage is sewage and water is water, 2 different fluids in game. But you can dump the ( cleaned or not cleaned ) sewage in a river or lake and then suck it up via a surface water inlet again.

You will then have polluted water which will ( logically, never checked it ) take more chemicals to clean into 99-100 % clean drinking water then it would with cleaner well water. I have had cities dumping sewage in the river without cleaning it, and sucking it up for the water treatment facility that cleaned it to 99-100 % just fine. I think i noticed that did use up gigantic quantities of chemicals. But i have played on "mild reactions" of populace so far, so maybe they die or flee doing that setting it to more difficult levels.

According to the tutorial you can use dirty water for cement industry.