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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5385)4/10/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Ron-I wouldn't get too excited about the functionality of our infrastructure just yet. Denver metro sewage is by far the exception (isn't that biogas generator just brilliant?) not the rule. This week after a Sydney, Australia newspaper declared, "There will be no need to hoard water when Sydney ushers in the millennium just in case Sydney Water is not Y2K compliant," we get this as a follow up: (from sangersreview.com)

>>>Sydney Water Says Can't Guarantee Full Supply on Y2K Dates (Dow Jones Newswires/AP -- requires paid registration)
Last Wednesday we read that Sydney (Australia) Water was claiming that only 1.57% of the systems were left to be tested (implying that 98.43% had already been tested compliant); to that article we add a few wrinkles. Today, the corporation's managing director, Alex Walker, said that the company could not guarantee its suppliers would be ready in time (though he said they could never guarantee its suppliers would be able to supply uninterrupted service, on any day of the year). Puzzlingly, he added that "currently 92% of day-to-day customer service systems are Y2K compliant." Last year, Sydney had to drink boiled or bottled water for weeks as Sydney Water struggled to clear the water of microbes.<<<

(Get out the water filter and some clean bottles, eh?)
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