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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9020387" data-attributes="member: 22779">Yeah, a lot of that wouldn't work.&nbsp; 1. Bringing in water by wagon would never work.&nbsp; The average person still needs a gallon of water per day.&nbsp; Never minding that the thousands of horses you'd need to drag those wagons also need to be watered.&nbsp; It's not just people that drink water in a city.2.&nbsp; Unless it rains practically several inches every single day, this again wouldn't work.&nbsp; The first dry spell and half the city dies.&nbsp; There's a reason you NEVER have major centers without rivers.3.&nbsp; The Underdark thing I can kinda/sorta see - but, again, that's not very plausible.&nbsp; Pumped how?&nbsp; 4.&nbsp; This one I would buy.&nbsp; Straight up, &quot;A wizard did it&quot;.&nbsp; 5.&nbsp; A 100 casters wouldn't even put the smallest dent in the water requirements for a city that size.In response to the &quot;Also note that&quot;1.&nbsp; The things that people drank instead of water?&nbsp; They are made of water.&nbsp; How much water do you think it requires to make a gallon of beer.&nbsp; It's a HELL of a lot more than a gallon of water - you need to water the plants that you use to make the beer, plus beer itself is almost entirely water.&nbsp; And you can't make beer from salt water or even dirty water.2.&nbsp; Even ignoring the cleaning aspects.&nbsp; The population of a city is absolutely dwarfed by the population of animals in that city.&nbsp; For every man, woman and child, you have chickens, pigs, horses, goats and a shopping list of other animals.&nbsp; It's not like people didn't have livestock in the city.&nbsp; And, remember, there are NO RIVERS near Waterdeep. How do you have farms?&nbsp; And, after you have farms, how do you get the food INTO the city without a river?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 9020387, member: 22779"] Yeah, a lot of that wouldn't work. 1. Bringing in water by wagon would never work. The average person still needs a gallon of water per day. Never minding that the thousands of horses you'd need to drag those wagons also need to be watered. It's not just people that drink water in a city. 2. Unless it rains practically several inches every single day, this again wouldn't work. The first dry spell and half the city dies. There's a reason you NEVER have major centers without rivers. 3. The Underdark thing I can kinda/sorta see - but, again, that's not very plausible. Pumped how? 4. This one I would buy. Straight up, "A wizard did it". 5. A 100 casters wouldn't even put the smallest dent in the water requirements for a city that size. In response to the "Also note that" 1. The things that people drank instead of water? They are made of water. How much water do you think it requires to make a gallon of beer. It's a HELL of a lot more than a gallon of water - you need to water the plants that you use to make the beer, plus beer itself is almost entirely water. And you can't make beer from salt water or even dirty water. 2. Even ignoring the cleaning aspects. The population of a city is absolutely dwarfed by the population of animals in that city. For every man, woman and child, you have chickens, pigs, horses, goats and a shopping list of other animals. It's not like people didn't have livestock in the city. And, remember, there are NO RIVERS near Waterdeep. How do you have farms? And, after you have farms, how do you get the food INTO the city without a river? [/QUOTE]

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