Fresh Water Infrastructure

All water works districts (Aqueducts, Dams, Canals) provide fresh water if they are adjacent to the city center and have access to fresh water themselves. Aqueducts provide extra housing based on Appeal (just like Neighborhoods) when you have the Urbanization civic.

This mod lets you save some space around your city center. Your cities should not need an Aqueduct after all if it's already next to a reservoir lake from a Dam. Your people are able to take water from it just as easily as from a regular lake.

As a reminder: A city without fresh water has 2 Housing from water by default, or 3 if adjacent to coast. A city with fresh water receives 5 Housing from water. Fresh water is by default provided by rivers, lakes, and oases.

Features

• Dams always provide fresh water to adjacent City Centers.

• A Canal provides fresh water to an adjacent City Center if the Canal itself has fresh water access.

• A city without direct fresh water access will receive +2 Housing from an Aqueduct as if it did, but only if the city also gets fresh water from a Dam or Canal.

• With Urbanization civic: Aqueducts provide +1 Housing with uninviting Appeal, +2 Housing with average Appeal, +3 Housing with charming Appeal, and +4 Housing with Breathtaking Appeal on top of the Housing they provide by default.

Requires Gathering Storm. Support for p0kiehl's Better Aqueduct mod is included. See Compatibility section below for details.

Compatibility

This mod requires Gathering Storm. Support for p0kiehl's Better Aqueduct: With both mods active, Aqueducts no longer provide +1 Housing with charming Appeal by default. Instead, only the Appeal-based Housing from this mod, which unlocks with the Urbanization civic, will be active. All other changes are not affected and will work together fine. The same is true for other Aqueduct mods.

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