Helena Joyce
Water pollution is a significant issue in SimCity 5, and it can have detrimental effects on the player's city and Sims. Water pollution is caused by various factors, including industry, power plants, and seaports. It can lead to reduced pump capacity and negatively impact the health of Sims, causing illness and even death. To combat water pollution, players can employ several strategies, including building water treatment plants, sewage treatment plants, and utilising city ordinances. Additionally, investing in education and transitioning to cleaner power plants can help prevent pollution and improve the city's sustainability.
What You'll Learn
Build a water treatment plant
Water pollution is a serious issue in SimCity 5, and it can have detrimental effects on your city and its residents. Water pollution is caused by all types of industry, except for high-tech industries, as well as power plants and seaports. It can lead to a range of issues, from lowered pump capacity to illness among your Sims.
To combat water pollution, one effective strategy is to build a water treatment plant. This building is specifically designed to reduce water pollution and improve the cleanliness of your city's water grid. The water treatment plant in SimCity 5 has a maximum capacity of 60,000 gallons of polluted water that it can process over its lifetime, making it a valuable asset in your fight against water pollution.
When placing your water treatment plant, consider its location carefully. While it is essential to have access to the water source, you also want to minimise the impact on residential and commercial zones to maintain high land values. A good practice is to place the water treatment plant and a water pumping station back-to-back in a central location. This setup ensures efficient water treatment and distribution throughout your city.
Additionally, investing in water filtration pump modules for your water pumping station is crucial. These filtration pumps ensure that your Sims have access to clean, potable water, reducing the risk of waterborne illnesses.
By constructing a water treatment plant and implementing thoughtful strategies, you can effectively manage water pollution in SimCity 5, leading to a healthier and more prosperous city for your Sims to enjoy.
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Upgrade to high-tech industry
Water pollution in SimCity 5 is a serious issue, and it can have a detrimental effect on your city's development and the happiness of your Sims. Water pollution is caused by dirty industry, power plants, and seaports. It can cause pumps to become clogged and function at a lower capacity, and it can also reduce the output of water towers and water plants.
Upgrading to high-tech industry is a great way to combat water pollution. High-tech industries do not cause water pollution, and they can replace old, dirty factories with new, clean buildings. Here are some strategies to upgrade to high-tech industry and reduce water pollution:
- Education: Increasing the education level of your Sims is key to attracting high-tech industry. Build a community college or university as soon as possible to start raising tech levels. Educated Sims are more likely to work in high-tech industries and will also be healthier, reducing strain on your healthcare system.
- Zoning: Zone new areas away from pollution and ensure these zones have access to water. High-tech industries prefer areas with high desirability, so consider demolishing highly polluted areas and replacing them with parks and open grass spaces filled with trees.
- Ordinances: Enact city ordinances related to pollution, such as the Clean Air Act, to reduce demand for dirty industry.
- Transportation: Plan a mass transit strategy with long avenues that are conducive to streetcars. This can help reduce traffic congestion, which is a source of air pollution.
- Water Treatment Plants: Build water treatment plants to clean your city's water grid. These plants can process up to 60,000 gallons of polluted water, but their capacity decreases over time. Connecting multiple water treatment plants by pipeline can improve their effectiveness.
By following these strategies, you can upgrade to high-tech industry and significantly reduce water pollution in your SimCity 5 game.
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Remove sources of ground pollution
Ground pollution in SimCity 5 is caused by poor waste management and sewage solutions. Sewage is, by its nature, pollution, and the areas around sewage outflow pipes will always be dirty. If you bulldoze a landfill, all the trash will convert to ground pollution.
To remove sources of ground pollution, you can:
- Bulldoze a landfill, which will cause the ground pollution to disappear within time, although it will wreak havoc on health and land value in the meantime.
- Send sewage to another city in the region that can handle the extra capacity, i.e., a city with a sewage treatment plant. This option can be costly, but it eliminates ground pollution in your city and provides extra revenue for the destination city. Once the ground pollution is removed, the land will gradually "heal" and become inhabitable again.
- Build a sewage outflow pipe. This is the only option in the early game without taking regional options into account, but it produces the highest amount of ground pollution. It should be built as far away from the populace as possible.
- Upgrade to a tech level that doesn't produce ground pollution by upgrading your education systems.
- Plant trees and build parks on top of the polluted areas. This is a slow process, and the trees will die and need to be replaced, but it will help to clean up the ground pollution.
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Send sewage to another city
One way to deal with water pollution in SimCity 5 is to send sewage to another city. This can be done by setting up a new city specifically for utilities. Here are some detailed steps to follow:
- Start a new city and build it up until it is financially stable and generating a good income. This will be your utility city.
- Send funds from your main city to this new utility city.
- In the utility city, build and fully upgrade 4-5 power plants, water plants, and sewage plants.
- Set these utility buildings to provide their services to the region, including your main city.
- You can now focus on managing your main city, while the utility city handles the sewage and water treatment.
It is important to note that sewage outflow pipes will always be a source of pollution, even with a sewage treatment plant in place. To minimize the impact, ensure that the treatment plant can handle the load and consider placing multiple plants in different parts of the city to prevent overflow and reduce the strain on any single plant.
Additionally, water pollution can be mitigated by implementing city ordinances such as the Clean Air Act, reducing traffic congestion, and planting trees. Educating your Sims is also crucial, as it encourages high-tech industries to move in, replacing old, polluting factories with cleaner buildings. These strategies, combined with effective sewage management, will help keep your city's water pollution under control.
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Plant trees
Trees are a great way to help clean up water pollution in SimCity 5. While they don't directly address water pollution, they can help to reduce the overall pollution levels in your city, which will have a positive impact on your water pollution levels.
First, let's understand how pollution works in SimCity. Pollution is a byproduct of certain buildings and industries in the game. There are two main types: air pollution and water pollution. Air pollution is caused by dirty and manufacturing industries, certain power plants, traffic, and airports. Water pollution, on the other hand, is caused by all types of industries except high-tech, power plants, and seaports. It can also be caused by ground pollution, which is the result of poor waste management and sewage solutions.
Trees help to remove air pollution and can improve the air quality in your city. This, in turn, can help to reduce the overall pollution levels, including water pollution. Additionally, trees can help to beautify your city and make it more appealing to high-tech industries, which are less polluting.
To plant trees in SimCity 5, you can use the "Nature" tool in the parks section. Simply select the tool and click on the areas where you want to plant trees. You can also add parks, which will not only reduce pollution but also increase land value and encourage wealth upgrades.
However, keep in mind that trees alone may not be enough to completely eliminate water pollution. You should also consider implementing other strategies, such as building water treatment plants, improving waste management and sewage solutions, and reducing traffic congestion. Additionally, investing in education early on can help you gain access to better sewage solutions and high-tech industries, further reducing pollution levels.
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Frequently asked questions
Water pollution is caused by all types of industry except for high-tech, power plants, and seaports. To clean water pollution, you can try the following:
- Build a water treatment plant. This has a maximum capacity of 60,000 gallons of polluted water to process.
- Build a sewage treatment plant. This will clean the sewage instead of dumping it onto the ground.
- Send sewage to another city with a sewage treatment plant.
- Use a water filtration pump.
- Bulldoze a landfill.
- Increase education levels to lower the chance of Sims getting sick.
- Add some parks.
Water pollution is caused by all types of industry except for high-tech, power plants, and seaports. To prevent water pollution, you can try the following:
- Avoid building industrial zones near rivers.
- Avoid building power plants that use coal and oil.
- Avoid building near seaports.
- Avoid having high traffic volume near bodies of water.
You can check the water pollution graph to see if there is a visible change in water pollution levels. You can also look for standing water with a black tinge, which indicates pollution. Additionally, you can query a pump near a polluted area, and the current working capacity will be lower than its maximum output.
Water pollution can gunk up pumps and lower their working capacity. If water pollution levels are high, water towers and water plants will produce less water. This can affect the happiness of industrial and commercial zones as Sims get sick and stop working and shopping.
There are two main types of pollution in SimCity: air pollution and water pollution. Air pollution is caused by dirty and manufacturing industries, certain power plants, traffic, and airports. It makes it hard for Sims to breathe and discourages development in polluted zones.
