Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/02/21
By: Lee Hsin-Yin, CNA staff reporter
Wu Chen-yao (吳禎耀) can still recall his teenage days when he played in Lyu-Chuan (綠
Photo courtesy of Taichung City Water Resources Bureau
川), a 6.1-kilometer canal that runs through the Central District of Taichung.
“There were all kinds of fish: tilapia, eel,… and we would go into the water to catch them while our mothers washed clothes there,” said Wu, 67, head of Chikuang Ward in the district, as he remembered how the waterway has shaped the city.
Many people in the neighborhood share similar nostalgia with Wu, as the canal once created leisure and prosperity for downtown Taichung but gradually lost its glory due to water pollution and westward urban development.
The Central District is the birthplace of Taichung’s cultural and economic activities, which is crossed by two major canals of the city — Lyu-Chuan and Liu-Chuan (柳川).
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