Low water quality effect?

[dbatyuk]

Anyone knows what is low quallity drinking water effect? Morale? Health? Work productivity (I know that "no water" in industrial building halves productivity there)?

[frederic.bonave]

And I would add a question: is the water quality required for industrial buildings and farm is the same that for housing ?

[4X-Fan]

A decrease in health/life expectancy. How serious it is depends on how much your supplied water in terms of quality is below the drinking water standard of 97%.

[dbatyuk]

Originally posted by 4X-Fan:

A decrease in health/life expectancy. How serious it is depends on how much your supplied water in terms of quality is below the drinking water standard of 97%.

On start map (Novu's Siberia 1900 with last update) I have ~94% (well without cleaning) - so I'm thinking: cleaning infrastructure is really important and urgent - or no?

[4X-Fan]

Originally posted by dbatyuk:

Originally posted by 4X-Fan:

A decrease in health/life expectancy. How serious it is depends on how much your supplied water in terms of quality is below the drinking water standard of 97%.

On start map (Novu's Siberia 1900 with last update) I have ~94% (well without cleaning) - so I'm thinking: cleaning infrastructure is really important and urgent - or no?

Might depend on circumstances like citizens happiness/reaction - on the highest setting it is not unlikely that quite a number of people might try to escape or just don't get that many children. In that scenario, I would avoid anything lowering life expectancy further and clean the water.
On the lower happiness settings pop growth soon faster than you house people anyway, so here you can get away with it. However, be prepared to have more people in hospitals then.

Overall water treatment is the safer option and bringing input water of 94% to 97% quality shouldn't be a problem and also not too expensive (the amount of chemicals used up for it depends on how dirty the input water is)

[Silent_Shadow]

Originally posted by frederic.bonave:

And I would add a question: is the water quality required for industrial buildings and farm is the same that for housing ?

Sort of; there are two types of water: Potable water for people use, and water for industrial use.

If a place has jobs then citizens working (visiting?) there will use potable water the same as they do at home. Not having potable water at a facility will lower its productivity. The food factory wants 97% quality water at a minimum for the food it makes, so I would aim for that at least for people's use.

If an industrial building lists water as a part of the "consumption at maximum production," then it wants water not for its workers, but for industrial purposes at a grade at or above whatever grade it lists just below. The concrete plant wants at least 55% for example. Such 'industrial water' typically has its own water connection points (and resultant sewage points) just as some factories have their own electrical connection points for power lines.

As for your question, you could feed 97% quality water to both, but you are wasting chemicals you used to purify the water on the concrete plant. Run the purified water to the factory via a water substation for the workers, and directly connect a lower quality source (such as the "water surface outflow" pipe) directly to the factory for its industrial needs.