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water shortage
Due to a very severe shortage of water over here,our resorvoirs are ony 1 third full, the water company is running the sea water de salination plant,but that is producing only 16 million litres of water a day and we are using 18 million, and if the rains do not come we will have stand pipes early next year,and maybe water will have to be imported, and we have been asked to stop using water for non essential purposes, so would darkroom work, which whatever we do uses a lot of water washing prints,be considered essential, I ask because I am being pressured by my neighbours and even my other half, to stop printing my personal photography until the rains come and the situation improves, so what would others here do, would you stop printing for the time being. other than any orders, or carry on printing, I have decided to close down for now, and wait with everything crossed that it will not be to long until I can start again.
Richard
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Richard, as much as it hurts me to say so, unless there is a real need to complete professional commitments, I would refrain from using supplied water for the moment
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I think that I would just concentrate on taking pictures and leave the d&p until the situation improves.
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You can't use what you don't have. I'd recommend going out and doing a raindance every evening (after dark so people can't see you). Then again, if you do it in daylight people may take pity on you and leave you alone.
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Trevor,
Yes, that is what I feel, mostly at the moment any professional work is printing orders from my website Etc, and although it hurts me other other than essentials such as that, this is always a quiet time for me, the Christmas work was completed last month, and things don't kick off again until the middle of January, so until then my darkroom is closed for my personal work, and will remain so until the water situation improves, I will continue to take pictures, using the Ilford method to wash the films, and the darkroom will work overtime later next year, Richard
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Its not essential to develop your films immediately, they too can wait.
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Sorry to hear this. The great thing about the U.K. including the Channel Islands is how quickly things can change so we could easily get a wet winter. Let's hope so but things are bad anywhere East of a line from the Wash to the Severn in the U.K.
I don't think I have ever seen our local reservoir at Brixworth as low as it is. If it carries on as it is then I think we are facing water restrictions of some kind in Northants as early as next Feb/March Mike |
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If you really have to, it's possible to wash film and prints in sea water (although I've not tried it with FB where's there's a likelyhood the salt etc. will soak into the base) and just give a final rinse in fresh. Probably only worth it for emergencies, though!
Rob |
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Oh Dear. Not like here on the Lancs/Yorks border after the fifth damp Summer in succession and flood defence works going on across the road.
I should be using FB papers. |
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