Every day between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., residents of the Jones Graduate Tower discover that their water is shut off for maintenance.”You have to realize that amongst the residents are also medical students with night shifts and they really have a problem when the water is shut off during the day,” said Juergen Steininger, resident and executive officer of the tower.The problem has been going on since the end of February when one of the resident’s rooms flooded, said Kimberly Hardy, president of the Jones Tower Committee.”I can understand the inconvenience caused, but the fixing needs to be done,” she said.Jones Tower was built in 1969 and is in need of a new water pipeline, said Ed Mikula, assistant director of facilities maintenance. The main water lines on the 13th floor are being replaced with a new system.”The plumbing has been the same since Jones Tower was built,” Hardy said.Currently, if a problem with any one section of the pipeline occurs, the entire system must be shut down, Mikula said. With the new system, isolation valves are being fixed so that work going on in one part of the building will not affect the rest of the building.Residents however, are getting tired of the inconvenience.Jones Tower resident Daniella Harhai said water has been a problem ever since she moved there in the fall of 1997.In addition to problems such as morning showers, Harhai said residents have been asked not to use the washing machines on the 14th floor to prevent flooding on the 13th floor.The maintenance work is noisy, which can be a problem for students who work during the night and wish to sleep late, Steininger said.Some law students in the tower are considering asking the administration for a deduction in rent, Steininger said.Residents have had meetings with maintenance people where the problem has been explained, Hardy said.”I was surprised how quickly the administration responded,” Steininger said.The completion date of the repair work is still unclear, Mikula said. Although the repair is scheduled to be finished in six to eight weeks, Mikula hopes the work will be completed sooner.