Taiwan has recently experienced a water shortage. Not only has many farmlands fallen fallow, but water use in high-tech industries has also been affected. In this regard, Taipei Mayor Ko Wenzhe said on Facebook on the 13th, "Politics should not just be magpies, not crows, but also take precautions in advance and prepare for rainy days."
Ko Wenzhe said that due to concentrated rainfall and steep terrain, Taiwan's water resources It is difficult to store, and due to the dense population, the annual rainfall per person is less than one-fifth of the world average. The use of water resources has always been a big challenge.
He pointed out that in 2002, due to a severe drought, Northern Taiwan also experienced 49 days of rotating water outages in different districts. After that pain, the Northern Water Department began a 20-year water supply pipe network improvement plan; instead of looking at the sky and praying for rain, It is to proactively prevent leaks and recover water resources. In the past 20 years, Beishui Department has replaced 2,286 kilometers of old pipelines, and the water leakage rate has dropped from 26.99% to 11.90%, which is equivalent to saving half of the Jade Reservoir's water every year, effectively reducing the reservoir consumption rate.
In the past three years, Taipei City has reduced the annual siltation volume of Feicui Reservoir to 292,000 cubic meters (0.1% of the total reservoir capacity) through water conservancy and sand drainage. Feicui Reservoir has also maintained a water storage rate of more than 80%. The water source is temporarily safe. Ko Wenzhe emphasized that Taipei now has no water shortage, which is the result of the 20 years of preparations made by colleagues at the Northern Water Department.
He also revealed that Taipei has begun to expand water support, transporting 910,000 tons of water every day to New Taipei , Keelung , Taoyuan and other counties and cities, so as to facilitate Shimen Reservoir to carry water from the north to the south to Hsinchu, Miaoli , hoping to alleviate the difficult water conditions as much as possible.
At the end of the article, Ke Wenzhe said that at this moment, Taiwan is facing the most severe drought in 70 years. The affected sectors have expanded from agriculture to industrial fields. Next is water for people's livelihood. He calls on everyone to not only save water, but also pay attention to this crisis. Leakage prevention will be strengthened in the future. "It's too late to deploy ahead of schedule now. At least we need to deploy appropriately. Don't wait until the day when things get too hard and the whole people suffers."
Strait Herald Editor Cheng Pei
