Water purity/pollution

[Jeff]

Just to be clear, this should replace water quality. It should be a number between 0,1 and 1,1, depending on the grade of pollution. This should act as a multiplier for the quality of foods. 1,1 means pure water, while 0.1 is highly polluted, toxic water. You can't actually see this number, though.
Basically, you can pollute water by dropping items inside that (except for clay and some other items) and by using smelters, kilns and so on near a lake or river. These actions lower the purity of the water. Depending on the grade of pollution, the purity slowly regenerates after a while (but pollutions also spread in the nearby waters).
This doesn't apply for toxic water. These waters should be visible (maybe with a different color) and provoke shp damage when drinked. Foods made with this water should be poisonous, too. And fishes don't live there.
You can slightly increase purity by boiling water, by the way.
What's the reason of this idea, you could ask?
Basically, i don't find much sense in a quality of water. Pure water is pure water, after all. Nothing can be better than pure water.
On the other side, this should be a more realistic approach. If many people live near a river, with a large and industrious town, the area will be surely polluted. Whileas in the wild, where it lives no one, the water will be pure and clear.

Well, i've finished. Let's begin trolling, people.

[Flame]

rotfl.... XD

Anyway, until we'll have smog and oil, we can't dirt the water, so it should be clean also near big towns. What dirt water aren't clay or soil, are oils, smog, coals, dusts that we don't use. You should need a rafinery of steel big like a town to ruin the water in this wild world.

Anyway i disagree the pure-not pure. Water is high q or lower depending in wich place it is, what mountains she cross and how much minrrals (and wich minerals) she get, so can have big quality or low quality.

(and a Pure water is almost toxic, it burn you XD)

[theTrav]

Big towns / cities can pollute small rivers just be sheer weight of poo and garbage.

I'm not a big fan of adding pollution to HnH though, I think hunter trap remnants are already bad enough