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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9020425" data-attributes="member: 6801060">You're underestimating how much water can be gathered and stored in cisterns just from normal weather. As a kid I lived on a farm, and just rainwater that was captured from the roof of the house was enough to supply the five of us with outside water only rarely needed. With a bigger cistern, we could have stored more, and that extra water would have been unnecessary. A second cistern stored water for the farm animals. And this is in an area that is somewhat dryer than Seattle/Waterdeep. More rain, larger roof surface areas, and larger cisterns (check out the gigantic cisterns of Istanbul if you want to see how a city that wasn't on a freshwater river managed to store its water in the Middle Ages) can result in a massive amount of retained water.The Desserin River flows into the sea a few miles to the south, in a swampy area with no good harbor (at least not as spectacularly good as Waterdeep's) which is why there's no port city there. There's a lot of trade all the way up to Silverymoon that comes down the river and makes the last few miles via the sea.But now that you mention it, it is odd that there aren't aqueducts from the river to the city. Perhaps it's piped in, or just magicked over.Edit: I see that [USER=54629]@pukunui[/USER] has linked what Ed has said about it from the Candlekeep forum, and basically, it's really wet weather and Underdark connections. No need for piping it in from the Desserin.</blockquote>

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