[2020] Serious problem with water pollution

Originally posted by OneJasonBradly:

Originally posted by barrygreybeard: put in a few water pumps in the polluted areas, power them and connect a small length of pipe to them but dont connect them to your city water system! they will eventually pump out the polluted water

To where will they pump that water to? please explain how this works for if nothing is connect to them they wont pump.

They pump it nowhere, it just sorta disappears. :P If you feel that's a little too unrealistic, you can add a clean sewage outlet to them. Then they will suck up dirty water, clean it and spit out almost clean water, which will then get sucked in and cleaned again.

If you have Green Cities, you can also use the floating garbage collectors to clean up the water. It takes some time and you might need to move them around a bit to get it all, but it's another option.

Originally posted by Sabi The Worst Player Ever: Wait a second, if I make single water pump, sucking in dirty water but connecting to "nowhere", wouldnt that slowly drain water from region? I mean, zero flow water maps, even when working as coastline, should be treated by game as big stillwater reserves. Or Im getting this wrong?

Maybe a little around the pump, but the game as a setting for the sea level, which won't be affected.