The Water Temple, also known as the Great Wellspring of Hyrule, is a location in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. It is reached exclusively during Main Quest “Sidon of the Zora“. The goal in this location is to open the 4 faucets to wash away the goo. This guide shows how to do that.
Water Temple Faucet #1
When arriving at the Water Temple, first you must interact with the altar by the stairs. Then you are told to turn on the 4 faucets.
Start by climbing up the ruins on the left side.
There will be 3 enemies and they hit very hard. Defeating them isn’t absolutely mandatory but makes the next steps easier. You must use Sidon’s water ability on the sludge-covered bubble maker in the back left corner. Have him cast a bubble around you, then jump up in the air and 
strike the sludge on the bubble maker to wash it away.
Now grab the round ball found here in the same area in the water between the enemies.
Hold it in front of the bubble maker. When a bubble comes, press 
to attach it. Now the ball will float inside the bubble to the next floor. You must also jump in a bubble and have it carry you up to the next floor.
Place the ball in the round pedestal in the pool. The ball will float in the water which is normal and fine for now.
Next, grab one of the floating green rocks in the area with Ultrahand. These are actually battery-powered Zonai devices, a type of special rock that stays in place as long as battery lasts. Use Ultrahand to attach one of them on top of the sluice on the right. Then use Ultrahand to raise the sluice. Make sure the green Zonai stone is powered on. You must hit it once if it’s not already activated. You know it’s on when it glows green and a battery icon appears onscreen. The floating rock will hold the sluice fully raised, so that it doesn’t go back down. This drains the water from the pool and makes the ball fall into the round pedestal. This in turn opens a gate at the end of the pool where a golden questmarker is.
Quickly run there and use Sidon’s water ability on the wheel. This turns on the first faucet.
Water Temple Faucet #2
For the second Faucet, glide down the west side of the big platform in the center to get to the bottom floor (B1).
There is a wall of fire. Activate Sidon’s ability to cast a protective bubble around you, then quickly walk through the fire.
In this room you must glide over to a little orb at the end.
Pick up the orb with Ultrahand, use 
to push it over the spikes on the floor as far as possible. Then do a running jump and glide over the spikes. Even though it looks like too big of a gap, since this area has low gravity you can make this long jump easily.
Then pick up the orb again using Ultrahand and attach it to one of the floating rocks.
Climb up the wall back to the start of the room. Again, use Ultrahand to carry the rock with attached orb to the wall at the entrance, next to the fire.
Place the rock with attached orb in the wall. The orb has to face the wall so that it fits into the round slot. Keep the flying rock attached, it will hold the orb in place, but only as long as the battery lasts. If the battery runs out you need to let it recharge and hit the rock again to activate its anti-gravity effect, which holds it in place (battery icon appears onscreen and rock glows green). This will open the door to the water wheel directly across from the orb’s wall slot.
Grab another flying rock with Ultrahand and place it at the entrance inside the fire stream, at the top where the fire comes out
This blocks the fire so you can safely go back out to Sidon. Press on him to activate his ability, run back inside and press to shoot the water at the wheel. This will activate the second faucet.
Water Temple Faucet #3
From the main platform in the middle, climb the wall to the right of the faucets where the big sludge is dripping down.
From there you can glide to the northeast island.
There is a bubble maker shooting bubbles from above. Wait for the bubble to arrive, then use Recall on it and quickly jump in the bubble. This makes the bubble float up with you inside it. Jump out at the top and glide to the upper platform.
On the right side is a water wheel. Below it are 2 stone slates. Use Ultrahand to attach them to the water wheel, at opposite ends.
One slate at the top, one at the bottom. Use Ultrahand to spin the attached stone slate into the waterfall, then let go. It will make the water wheel rotate. It must keep turning on its own, if it doesn’t you must fine-tune where you place the stone slates, each one must catch water from the waterfall to keep pushing the water wheel.
You will see a yellow line lighting up from the water wheel to the left side. Follow this yellow line. At one point there’s a gap in the wall. Use Ultrahand to grab a water bubble and place it in the gap. It will conduct the electricity to the door.
Then the door opens and you can shoot Sidon’s water ability at the wheel there to open the third faucet. Be quick before the water bubble bursts or else you must place another bubble in the gap.
Water Temple Faucet #4
From the same platform where you activated the third faucet you can glide over to the next platform in the south, where the last golden questmarker is.
Defeat the enemies here. You will notice a spinning tower in the middle of the area. It has one opening but it’s covered by sludge. The solution is to remove the sludge by popping a water bubble near it. This reveals an orange crystal in the tower that you can shoot with an arrow. Here’s how you do it:
In the southeast corner is a bubble maker machine. Stand on top of it. Use Ultrahand to grab freshly formed water bubbles as they come out the machine. Press + 
to push the bubble as close as possible to the spinning tower. Keep putting bubbles all around the tower top and wait for them to pop until one washes away the sludge.
You can check before & after by activating Recall ability. It freezes time so you can get a good view of the inside of the tower. If there’s sludge you didn’t put the bubbles close enough, or they popped when the tower was spinning away. If you see a shiny orange crystal, it worked and you can proceed to the next step.
Now stand on top of the middle platform where the questmarker is. From here you can shoot an arrow at the orange crystal in the spinning tower. It requires perfect timing. The two archer enemies in this area dropped bows you can use. If you run out of arrows you can reload the last autosave to retry. As soon as you hit the orange crystal a short cutscene plays and the door to the last water wheel opens.
Hit it with Sidon’s ability to turn on the final faucet.
Lastly, interact with the green portal on the main platform in the middle of the Water Temple to start the boss fight.
This finishes the Water Temple. For the rest of the quest continue with Sidon of the Zora Walkthrough.
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