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[Porpoisepower]

I'm in a freezing biome, with an aquifer and cliff. I'ld like to provide drainage for the aquifer off the cliff, but the wate keeps freezing in the pipe.  I've built a couple layers of floors above it, but that hasn't helped

[sharpie]

You could possibly pump magma up and parallel to your drain 'pipe'.

[CapnUrist]

The problem is that the water will freeze as soon as it hits an "outside" tile, and that includes any tiles that were ever outside regardless of their current state. Magma would keep it thawed, but as I believe you're trying to run the water out of a cliffside, that will only result in a small obsidian block, and if you kept the magma separate with floors, then the water would freeze once it left the warm floor and create a barrier anyway.

The only way I see this working for you is turning temperature off.

[brucemo]

As the previous poster said, a channel that was roofed over is never the same as one where the pipe has never been exposed to sky.

But the minute the water goes outside, it is going to freeze, which I think is going to clog your pipe regardless.

Perhaps dig down and look for another place to drain the water.

I am starting to love aquifers in cold biomes.  They are easy to get through, and once you are through you can just poke a hole in the ceiling for water where you want it.

[Illanair]

Drain it to the edge of the map instead? Below ground ofcourse. Smooth the tile on the edge and carve it into a fortification and presto - drainage.