COMPLETION CEREMONY: The government plans to reduce agricultural water waste by as much as 93.8 million cubic meters per year through a new conservation project
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 29, 2018
By: Chen Wei-han / Staff reporter
Premier William Lai (賴清德) yesterday promised to ensure stable water supply for all
The Zengwen Reservoir, which spans across Chiayi County and Tainan, is seen in a photograph taken yesterday from the Tainan side. Photo: Wu Chun-feng, Taipei Times
sectors of the economy and encouraged businesses to invest in Taiwan as he presided over a ceremony to mark the completion of a major dredging system for the Zengwen Reservoir (曾文水庫).
The holding capacity of the reservoir, which spans Chiayi County and Tainan, has been dramatically reduced in recent years by about 100 million cubic meters, or about one-sixth of its capacity, due to a build-up of sludge and sediment.
Typhoon Morakot in 2009 alone contributed 90 million cubic meters of mud, which prompted the government to design a dredging system to remove the sludge from the nation’s largest reservoir.
Construction of the NT$4.1 billion (US$141 million at the current exchange rate) system began in March 2013. [FULL STORY]
