Just got my annual water bill, first one since owning our house. We are on a community well and are allotted a certain amount of water that is roughly the usage of two adults (according to the USGS), so I was expecting an overage, and we did get that - but we also had a break in our main line earlier this year so that was also a huge issue.
Anyway, it got me thinking about how much water the darkroom uses. I am wondering if any of you know roughly how much your darkroom water usage is. Please of course include relevant info about usage - such as, just film processing, or light/moderate/heavy printing, etc.
I can't be sure how much water we lost from our main line break so I can't really answer this question myself (assuming my wife and I used the "typical" amount), but am now thinking about options for a water usage meter on the input line to my darkroom, just to keep tabs on it. Our overage past "normal" usage levels was about 30,000 gallons, but I've been printing a lot in the last year.
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