Water restrictions in Guilford County, NC — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Guilford County itself does not run a drinking-water utility and sets no lawn-watering ordinance. Outdoor-watering limits come from your city water provider's drought stages (Greensboro, High Point) triggered by NC drought conditions.
Unlike arid western jurisdictions, unincorporated Guilford County has no permanent lawn-irrigation schedule. Water conservation is instead driven by the municipal utilities that serve the county through drought-response plans. Greensboro and High Point each adopt staged restrictions (voluntary through mandatory) as North Carolina drought status escalates, limiting sprinkler days, times, and new landscape establishment. High Point's plan, for example, caps irrigation and bars washing impervious surfaces with drinking water during a shortage. Check your specific water provider for the current stage; well owners are generally not covered.
Fines are set by the water utility, not the county; Greensboro's structure begins around $50 for a first offense and rises for repeats during declared drought stages.
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