How to purify water?

[Nordkung]

Like the title says, how? Help and ideas much appreciated!

[Eli]

Make booze from plants.
No water required.

[Excellion]

As in desalinating it or removing contaminants?

Build a screw pump and have the dwarves pump your salted or contaminated water. The exact science behind it is unknown, but the result is fresh, drinkable water.

[Nordkung]

Originally posted by Eli:

Make booze from plants.
No water required.

Originally posted by Excellion:

As in desalinating it or removing contaminants?

Build a screw pump and have the dwarves pump your salted or contaminated water. The exact science behind it is unknown, but the result is fresh, drinkable water.

Thank you for your answers!

[sam8steen]

Yeah, set up a screw pump that puts the water into somewhere with a well. Contaminated/murky/salty water is "scientifically" cleaned after going through a screw pump

[Ghiron]

There's multiple answers depending on what you're asking.

To make well water not dirty, you must dig a cistern that spans multiple z levels. You do this by channeling a hole, then going down 1 level and channeling again. You will then have a pit 2 levels deep. Muddy water only appears on the bottom layer. The layer above it will be water with no mud.

To make salt water into freshwater, you need to build a screw pump and pump water through it. Dwarven Engineering magically desalinates the water. Assuming that hasn't changed from classic.