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[janamdo]

I need some water for drinking,  but there is no water source outside
Then i could use water from a light aquifer ?
The water mechanics ?

A lot of animals are starving  ..do they get no water?

[Shonai_Dweller]

I need some water for drinking,  but there is no water source outside
Then i could use water from a light aquifer ?

A lot of animals are starving  ..do they get no water?

Animals don't need water only food. So either put them outside to eat grass, or open up the caverns and cave moss will spread to your soil layers (and muddy rock? Maybe?) and they can eat that in safety.

Water from an aquifer can be used to drink, yes. Just put a well over it.

[janamdo]

Water from an aquifer can be used to drink, yes. Just put a well over it.

Perhaps i can also use the water from the aquifer to fill the moat ..is a pump necessary?
And building a well inside above light aquifer.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Water from an aquifer can be used to drink, yes. Just put a well over it.

Perhaps i can also use the water from the aquifer to fill the moat ..is a pump necessary?
And building a well inside above light aquifer.

Water can be used for lots of things!
Part of the fun of Dwarf Fortress is working out complicated things to do with water and watching them go wrong and drowning all your dwarves.

[janamdo]

Water can be used for lots of things!
Part of the fun of Dwarf Fortress is working out complicated things to do with water and watching them go wrong and drowning all your dwarves.

Watermanagement comes in play.. dehydrating seems to be now the cause of the destruction of my Fortress
Is "dehydrating" for water specific or also a shortage of alcohol drinking too ? 

Not everyone is drinking alcohol ..how about babies and dwarven youngsters? ..haha

[FantasticDorf]

In medieval times alcohol was much preferred over drinking water for practical reasons, all the courts of Europe, nobility and peasantry drank wine/beer or simply died of cholera and other nasty water bourne diseases without the sanitation of water we have today. The only instance in modern times where a water source was compromised was the infamous poisoning of the water with arsenic in Flint, Michigan, while in medieval times putting poison in a well would be catastrophic.

My advice for tapping light aquifers would be the same as in the "Dampstone all the Time" thread.

In your main access shaft liable to get flooded as you mine through layers, at the bottom create some depressurizing up/down stairs leading to a resovoir that can handle the additional water and put as much engineering (levers, bridges, floodgates retracting floors to dump water for farming, water-traps etc.) as you want.

But mainly when the resovoir at the bottom is finally under control instead of piling up water to flood your fortress (by going offscreen through a carved fortification), you have a nice stair-case waterfall & a source of water to use for a well.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Water can be used for lots of things!
Part of the fun of Dwarf Fortress is working out complicated things to do with water and watching them go wrong and drowning all your dwarves.

Watermanagement comes in play.. dehydrating seems to be now the cause of the destruction of my Fortress
Is "dehydrating" for water specific or also a shortage of alcohol drinking too ? 

Not everyone is drinking alcohol ..how about babies and dwarven youngsters? ..haha

Dwarves, including the children, don't drink water unless they absolutely need to. Alcohol is enough for them. Have enough alcohol and you won't need water until someone gets injured. Although it is useful for washing off blood, sweat, forgotten beast dust, etc.

Hospitalised dwarves only drink water and will die of dehydration if they're stuck there for too long without any (other dwarves will bring it to them).

[delphonso]

Healthy dwarves (children too) can survive totally on alcohol and plump helmets. Water is necessary only when a dwarf is injured and resting. Then, other dwarves will bring water to the injured dwarf in a bucket. A well is nice, but if you don't have the materials exposing one tile of aquifer water and setting a water source zone (i - zones) will be enough for a while. Then you can mess around with more advanced things like cisterns, flooding traps, and moats.

Edit: Shonai basically said the same.

[anewaname]

Ensure you have several buckets available.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Dwarven babies also need water if their mothers are absent. Though it is quite rare.

[janamdo]

Then dehydration has nothing to do with a shortage of water, but with a shortage of alcohol
I thought that i had brewed enough drinks, but i read also that a every dwarf needs his own barrel for drinking

That could be maybe the cause of the dehydration ?

[delphonso]

Dwarves will drink alcohol straight from barrels in the stockpile. They prefer to have mugs/goblets, but it's not necessary.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Then dehydration has nothing to do with a shortage of water, but with a shortage of alcohol
I thought that i had brewed enough drinks, but i read also that a every dwarf needs his own barrel for drinking

That could be maybe the cause of the dehydration ?

If they are dehydrating, they aren't drinking alcohol and have no access to water.  So you either have no alcohol (check z) or you've separated your dwarves from your alcohol with burrows or something..

If alcohol exists, dwarves will go get some when they're thirsty.

Unless they're stuck in a tree.

[gchristopher]

Part of the fun of Dwarf Fortress is working out complicated things to do with water and watching them go wrong and drowning all your dwarves.

TRUE! So very true! Build that cistern up tall, for those high pressure showers!

If you're worried about flooding, be sure to bring magma up high enough to dry things out.