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[Brent Not Broken]

So I'm working on an idea to have waterfalls inside the major hallway intersections in the fortress, so that dwarves have to walk through them (for the cheerful mist-related thoughts, and for general cleanliness).

I think it should be pretty easy to recirculate water through these fountains, so it's pumped up from below, rains down on the dwarves, is collected through floor grates, and is pumped through again.

My question is: does water get dirty when it gets recirculated like this? Do I need to come up with some way of changing out the water or filtering it somehow?

The secondary question is: how do you get rid of filthy water if you don't have an aquifer? Just send it to a storage tank in the caverns that vents off the edge of the map? I don't really want it sitting around.

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Water pumps have filters built in, so if you're pumping the runoff back up top, you're good to go.

The blood/contaminants will continue stacking up around the pump entrance, but as long as dwarves aren't stepping in that tile, it won't have any negative effects - it won't gunk up the pumps or anything.