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SGUILFORDIAN
GREENSBORO, NC
Greensboro faces severe water shortage
♦Recent rains do little to alleviate situation; municipal reservoirs are being emptied
By Paul Binford
STAFF WRITER
A five-month drought has
left Greensboro and many other
Piedmont communities dry.
Steps are being taken to curb
water usage as the city starts to
buy water from other sources.
There are four levels of wa
ter shortage. At level two, where
Greensboro currently is, steps
are taken to control water use. At
level four, outdoor water use is
restricted to firefighting.
Some of the current limita
tions include no private lawn wa
tering or car washing. People
caught using water this way will
be fined. Some residents get
around this by watering late
at night, with no regard for
the larger problem. In order to
prevent some cheating, the
city has turned off automatic
sprinkler systems.
Restaurants no longer bring
customers water unless they ask
for it. Businesses are encouraged
to cut water use by 25%.
Buying water from other cit
ies, mainly High Point, is only a
short-term solution, and an ex
pensive one.
Greensboro is paying High
Point $ 114,00 a month for 1.5 mil
lion gallons a day. Customers can
expect a 5-10% increase in their
water bill, according to city man
ager Ed Kitchen.
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The water being used by Guilford students is costing the city of Greensboro dearly.
Some of
this price in
crease will be
used to con
struct a pipe
line to tap into
Winston-
Salem's water
supply, the
Yadkin River.
This will ben
efit Winston-
Salem, which
can also charge
Greensboro
for water.
High
Point city man
ager Strib
Boynton says,
"if the drought
continues, we
will not have
any excess wa
ter and we will
need to discontinue sales to
Greensboro."
Greensboro's inadequate wa
ter supply is not a new obstacle.
A small watershed is part of the
problem. Source lakes like Brandt
and Townsend are being emptied
Campus computer network
undergoes some alterations
♦ Information Technology Services hopes problems are solved
By Devra Thomas
STAFF WRITER
It's late Monday night and
you're working on a paper for
class. You're typing away and al
most finished but need a vital
piece of information from a
website that you saw last week.
You pull up Netscape and type in
the address. The net starts going.
And going. And going. And noth
ing happens. And that's all you
know.
During the first few weeks of
November, the campus computer
network experienced intermittent
connectivity in some of the build
in?: on campus. The internal net
w sharespaces, administra
tive programs, and Banner — all
wor :ed, but anything coming in
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of 31.5 million gallons daily, com
pared with a mere ten million gal
lons flowing in. Usually this time
of year is used to restore a sup
ply depleted by summer. Ex
pected rains have not material
ized and the first few will do little
from outside the campus, which
included email and the Internet,
didn't.
Information Technology Ser
"While no one is more
frustrated than ITS, we
are doing everything we
possibly can on a daily
basis to keep the amount
of technology [we have]
in good working order."
Teresa Sanford
vices (ITS) spent a frazzled 24
hours pinpointing the problem and
then correcting it. Basically, the
problem > hat the college's
router m vied upgraded firmware
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NOVEMBER 20,1998
more than saturate the ground
Here at Guilford students
should watch their water use.
Shorter showers and not leaving
water running are steps that can
be taken towards helping the
larger community.
[combination of software and hard
ware], but when the firmware was
installed, the hardware could not
handle it. Hardware was eventu
ally found and the firmware in
stalled. Finally, the network was
working again.
This, of course, baffles most
of us who only know that our com
puter isn't doing what it is sup
posed to be doing. So Jeff Sellick,
ITS associate director and care
taker of the central network, ex
plained the process. He said:
"There are two protocols fin
formation senders] on campus:
TCP-IP and Netbeui. Netscape
uses the first and is routed while
the internal network uses
Netbeui, which is broadcast. The
Please see Network, page 3