I've always found this question interesting. Where does Clock Town get its water?
There are quite a few places were it's water might come from, but there are issues which make it unlikely that it'd come from certain regions. We can omit the Woodfall Swamp out of the picture immediately. The water is poisoned, so if Clock Town's water came from that area it'd be poisoned too.
Snowhead is frozen over, most of it's water has turned to ice. In this situation a scenario like that in Twilight Princess when Zora's Domain is completely frozen over would happen. The Water in Hyrule Castle Town stopped flowing, the same thing would happen in Clock Town if its water was from Snowhead. The fact Clock Town has flowing water makes me doubt it orginates from that area.
The Great Bay is salt water, there is no way it's the source of Clock Town's Water.
Ikana Canyon has water flowing near the canyon bottom, but we don't even know were it orginates from. I used to think maybe it was the source of Clock Town's Water but there are no obvious channels redirecting water toward Clock Town.
Actually Clock Town has no channels leading toward it in the feild surrounding it. We do know that Clock Town's water flows underground, but still there should be evidence of this in the feild somewere, assuming it leads to some water source in a different area.
More recently I've pondered the idea of Clock Town being built above a underground water source. This would explain the lack of evidence suggesting the water comes from any of the surrounding regions. It also explains why Clock Town is located were it is. Normally civilizations inhabit areas closest to abundant water sources. Considering that it makes me wonder, why wasn't Clock Town built closer the Ikana Canyon? The only explanation is that Clock Town doesn't get it's water from that region, and it doesn't channel water from any regions. It has its own underground water supply.
Do you have any alternative theories? If so please share them.
There are quite a few places were it's water might come from, but there are issues which make it unlikely that it'd come from certain regions. We can omit the Woodfall Swamp out of the picture immediately. The water is poisoned, so if Clock Town's water came from that area it'd be poisoned too.
Snowhead is frozen over, most of it's water has turned to ice. In this situation a scenario like that in Twilight Princess when Zora's Domain is completely frozen over would happen. The Water in Hyrule Castle Town stopped flowing, the same thing would happen in Clock Town if its water was from Snowhead. The fact Clock Town has flowing water makes me doubt it orginates from that area.
The Great Bay is salt water, there is no way it's the source of Clock Town's Water.
Ikana Canyon has water flowing near the canyon bottom, but we don't even know were it orginates from. I used to think maybe it was the source of Clock Town's Water but there are no obvious channels redirecting water toward Clock Town.
Actually Clock Town has no channels leading toward it in the feild surrounding it. We do know that Clock Town's water flows underground, but still there should be evidence of this in the feild somewere, assuming it leads to some water source in a different area.
More recently I've pondered the idea of Clock Town being built above a underground water source. This would explain the lack of evidence suggesting the water comes from any of the surrounding regions. It also explains why Clock Town is located were it is. Normally civilizations inhabit areas closest to abundant water sources. Considering that it makes me wonder, why wasn't Clock Town built closer the Ikana Canyon? The only explanation is that Clock Town doesn't get it's water from that region, and it doesn't channel water from any regions. It has its own underground water supply.
Do you have any alternative theories? If so please share them.
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