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[maxs]

So I dug down to the first cavern level to find a magma pipe (first time I've seen one! pretty neat) but no lake.. not something I've encountered before. How do I go about making a well for my hospital!? Right now I've got an injured soldier and my ponds are all frozen over... poor bastard is dying of thirst because no one will get him booze instead.. and sadly booze can't be used to make casts or he'd be long outof there 

[DrKillPatient]

I think I heard that collapsing ice becomes water. Try to cave in a lake?

[ZaDoktor]

You could try diverting magma from the pipe to under a frozen pond, which I think will melt it. However, magma moves pretty slowly so your dwarf might dehydrate before then.

I would suggest trying to dig down deeper, into the next cavern layer, to see if it contains a water source.

[Halnoth]

When embarking on a site which freezes it is usually good practice to make building a well one of your top priorities. Essentially right after you set up the initial all purpose room and build the necessary workshops.

[celem]

Chase the other caverns is your best bet.  You probably (but not definatly) have water in one of them.  get a fast water source with a zone and make sure you got buckets..theyll rescue the invalid.  Afterwards build your well and everything.  If you go for the well first he'll probably die before someone gets round to bringing water

[Manae]

Expanding off of the others above, you have a few options, considering magma-melting will likely take too long:

1) Cave in one of the ponds. It will give you a very short-term supply of water. Preferably, do one of the smaller ones so you don't waste precious water without diverting it to a more permanent home. Simply enough, just dig all the spaces directly under it and then channel around it. Try to keep it so the only tile not directly under it is the stairs. You can re-build the down stairs after.

2) Go to the next cavern. Hope it has water and someone can be quick about getting some.

3) If you have an aquifer, you can use a pressure reducer and U-bend to make a self-filling well right by your hospital. And it has the added benefit of being water very close to the well itself, so filling jobs will be much quicker than having to drop the bucket all the way down to the second cavern each time.

Regardless of how you go, I'd recommend building a cistern right under your well. It will save a lot of time when dwarves fill the bucket, is more secure, and should be a top priority in any freezing biome.