Supplying your citizens with water isn't very complicated. To begin, you're going to want to use the very inexpensive water towers which simply suck up water from the water table and then use gravity to pump it out to all of your Sims. However, later on you're going to want to upgrade to a water treatment facility to save space and produce more water.
Water Tower
A water tower is simply a tall water storage container that sucks water up and holds it until it's needed. These are the inexpensive water units, but they use up vast amounts of valuable real estate when you try to supply a city of 25,000 or more. At that threshold, you'll need to start planning to buy a water treatment facility.
Water Treatment Facility
The water treatment facility is the preferred method of watering your Sims. Firstly, it can suck up large quantities of ground water and takes up little room on your map. But more importantly, it also has the ability to clean water -- with the right modules -- so it can also use dirty ground water without getting people sick.
In the image above you can see a fully upgraded water treatment facility with it's maximum six pumps -- five regular pumps and one treatment pump (left).
The Water Table
At the beginning of the game, it may seem that you have tons of water on your map. However, the truth is that as you plop down various water units they change the water table as they suck up the water. Over time, each unit will be able to suck up less and less water until they run dry. So you'll need to make plans and changes over time to accommodate the changing water table.
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