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[masonmason]

How do I keep my dwarves in the hospital from dieing in the winter

[Lagslayer]

If this pertains to having unfrozen water, make an underground well. Also, make the hospital underground.

[masonmason]

yes unfrozen water would be a dream come true but how do I do that with out flooding everything

[ext0l]

Kill them in the summer 

Serious answer:
Dig a cistern to always have fresh water, keep dwarfs inside, make sure you have soap etc

[masonmason]

If I wall in and put a floor/ceiling above my natural source of water will it freeze

[dakenho]

magma one tile under the frozen water will keep it thawed

[masonmason]

3rd year in I havn't even started digging that far down yet

[NecroRebel]

If I wall in and put a floor/ceiling above my natural source of water will it freeze

Yes. Above ground water will freeze, even if it is inside, though no underground water will.

What you need to do is dig horizontally into a water source so that the tunnel is underground, with a natural floor over it, and have that tunnel lead to an underground chamber that you can store water in. Make sure that the squares and/or well that you use to access this water are underground as well!

[Lagslayer]

And make sure you have plenty of wells. Dwarves using wells is just like using an item or mining something out. Dwarves call dibs and only one dwarf can use anything at a time. Even if a dwarf is a billion tiles away, if he wants water first, no other dwarves can use his well until he is done.

[gtmattz]

yes unfrozen water would be a dream come true but how do I do that with out flooding everything

Use a bucket...

[Uristocrat]

yes unfrozen water would be a dream come true but how do I do that with out flooding everything

While it's still ice, that's a great time to carve a fortification into the wall next to the river, then set up a floodgate behind that.  (The fortification keeps monsters out, the floodgate keeps water out... or will, when it thaws.  Hook that floodgate up to a lever and you have some control.

As for the water pressure part, water tiles sitting on top of other water tiles creates pressure (i.e. it allows water to move up).  To remove pressure, make it flow diagonally.  What I do is to guard all my well shafts:  anywhere water can get pushed *up* a hole, I put a + of walls around it, so it can only get in there diagonally.  You can create pressure anywhere, so don't get any bright ideas about trying to do this to "remove" pressure at the intake point.  I nearly flooded my first well that way and was saved only because I had also built a pump down there that pumped water into a fortification I carved into the edge of the map (that's how you drain water) and I had a good shutoff valve, like the floodgate I told you to make.

[Schmlok]

1. use a bucket and a pond zone to fill an underground well by hand(make lots of smaller zones for more workers filling at once)

2. use a floodgate to let the water in underground, and an overflow and the end of the drop so it doesnt flood out your well.

3. use a 2 floodgate + 2 lever system to meter the water manually.

4. The diagonal flow.