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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9020651" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I assume that the Dessarin irrigates the farmland around Waterdeep to the extent it needs additional irrigation beyond rainwater. No aqueduct needed, just regular flood management like levies and such feeding excess water to irrigation wells around the area, reducing the effects of flooding right around the river, and feeding some of that good river sediment enriched water to surrounding farmlands. I know. That doesn’t change that it’s funny that the city itself does not roll deep with water. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I do find the cold seawater bathing odd. Why not just…pump seawater up to bathes? There were folks in European history who bathed every day or close to it during the Middle Ages, like most “viking” cultures. To the point where native British men complained that these foreign men were stealing the women by being so dang clean and well groomed. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😂" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" title="Face with tears of joy    :joy:" data-shortname=":joy:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I also definitely run Waterdoop as having running water toilets and public baths that even the poor can reliably use pretty frequently, and I recently ran the city as building infrastructure to clean the harbor and turn the city’s waste into fertilizer using a system invented by an alliance between the Tinker’s Guild, the Architects Guild, a contingent of Lantannan Gnomish engineers and alchemists, and the Emerald Enclave. Basically I guess I think Waterdeep works really well as the most advanced city in Western Faerun. I’m sure it does, in places. But IRL there are freshwater sources under sea level, near the sea, so I’m sure a geologist could tell us the answer. He definitely didn’t. Tbh I am always confused as to why on Earth Waterdeep needs Druidic help feeding people. They don’t have fish and crabs and such in the water? The Desserin valley doesn’t produce excess food for trade?If the Waterdeep area is like Western Washington, it should be extremely good for keeping livestock and growing both food and trade crops. I guess I’ve always seen the Dessarin Valley as a mix of northern Cali and the Central Valley before the water table was depleted, so I think of it as “breadbasket” territory.</blockquote>

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