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Typhoon Morakot struck and caused the "88 floods" that surpassed the 87 floods, Taitung Taimali tragically drowned the village, Nantou mountainous areas collapsed again ...... This disaster not only reflects the government's investment of eight years and 80 billion yuan of the budget for water treatment has been with the earth and stone flow away, but also highlights the national territory restoration action has been urgent and urgent.

The flooding was just the final blow

"To treat water, we must first protect the mountains, but the government is going in the opposite direction," he said. Liao Ben-chuan, an associate professor at Taipei University's Department of Real Estate and Urban and Rural Environment, said bluntly, "The heavy rain is just the final blow after the trigger is activated for fragile Taiwan." Liao's example of the Taimari Creek embankment collapse shows that the serious siltation of the creek is only one of the causes, and the destruction of the soil and water conservation function in the mountains and forests is the key to the fatal situation.

The Taimali area has been undergoing overall development since 1982, and has been widely planted with gold needles and tea trees, making it famous for its gold needle mountains. The director of the Taitung branch of the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau, Mr. Sun Ming-teh, is pleased to see that farmers are no longer focusing only on agricultural production, but are now moving towards a "rich and beautiful rural life".

The "rich and beautiful countryside" is leisure agriculture, and the construction of the B&B is a concrete demonstration of this. So far, there are 22 lodging houses on the 300-hectare Jinshi Mountain***. All of the land use on the mountain is "over-utilized". The local township office has also demanded "local legalization".

The causes of the disaster can be divided into the natural environment, such as local rivers and forests, and the geology of the mountains and forests, followed by human factors, such as over-utilization of the mountain, accelerating the destructive capacity of the rain; but the most worrying thing is that the governance mechanism can not be promoted.

Liao Benquan pointed out that the Golden Needle Mountain is not the only example, Lushan Hot Springs, Beitou Xingyi Road Hot Springs are "already over the limit of the use of the refusal to manage, but instead hope that in situ lawful" of the barbaric game. He said sadly, once the local legal, the subsequent illegal situation will only become more and more.

Funding for remediation drains water

"It's like a skilled driver driving a high-performance car in the wrong direction," he said. Green Citizen Action Coalition secretary-general Xu Cicangjuan, who is the convenor of the Water Treatment Coalition's flood-prone program, is quite helpless about the government's misplaced resources for water treatment.

The government's budget is ineffective, she said. She cited the Taipei County Shuangxi River improvement project as an example of flooding due to the Fukiji Highway, which divided the original 60-hectare floodplain into two. "The Water Resources Department felt that the Fukiji Highway was not within its purview to deal with, so it only dealt with its own governance line.

What is within the governance line? Covering the riverbank. The planning unit explains that the river levee was planned for flood control with a 50-year flood frequency. But the flooding of the Shuangxi River is a flood frequency of 2 hundred years, meaning that the project budget of nearly 1 billion dollars is completely wasted. Xu Cicuanjuan said, the embankment cover, the water can not flow out to the river, as long as the flooding water, you have to rely on pumping water.

"When the big water comes, it's too late for the pumps to work," he said. The pumps are often rendered useless by the sheer volume of water," Xu said. "The water inside and outside the embankment is already as high as 10 meters, so where is the water going to be pumped to?"

Destroying 'big warmth'

Water Resources Department deputy director Wu Josie said of the August 8 floods, "No matter where this much rain falls, it will flood just the same." What the Water Resources Department has overlooked is that flooding can be 3 centimeters, not the horrific sight of 3-story buildings, hotels collapsing and bridges breaking.

Hsu said that the causes of flooding are endless and need to be integrated across ministries, but the current water treatment program is almost entirely handed over to the Water Resources Department, the root cause of the flooding can not be solved, the water treatment project is only dealing with the smallest and smallest details. She took Taichung flooding as an example, because the 7 phase of the rezoning area and the Central Taiwan Science Park is the original river floodplain, but was the result of the padding, she pointed out: "In order to develop the industrial zone, homes will become flooded.

"If the government doesn't wake up, the disasters won't stop." Liao Benquan described each storm as a play, "The script is the same, only the time and space are different." Liao pointed out that the government's development hand has always reached out to fragile areas of the country, but these sensitive environments are not suitable for development, "forcing the land to be claimed, and waiting to see if God is going to deal the final blow.

Morak's onslaught caused the backing up of seawater in Pingtung, and the over-pumping of groundwater by the aquaculture industry has once again become the subject of a lot of criticism, but in reality, it is the industry that has the key impact on over-pumping of groundwater.

The National Petroleum Corporation (NPC) and the National Petroleum Corporation (NPC) Phase IV Erlin Park, for example, because of the tight water resources in central China, the current daily 26 tons of water used by the people of Changhua, nearly 200,000 tons of water is pumped from the groundwater; in the future, the NPC will need 270,000 tons of water per day, and the National Petroleum Corporation (NPC) will need 400,000 tons of water, the National Petroleum Corporation (NPC) and the NPC are located in the area of the serious subsidence of the strata, and the environmental protection groups are concerned about the disasters that occur along with the path of the typhoon. What should we do if a typhoon comes to Changhua one day?

Whenever the government implements a major development project, it always emphasizes that industry is the "big warmth" that brings employment opportunities, but Liao Benquan pointed out that under the influence of global climate change, rainstorms will only become more and more frequent; studies have shown that rainstorms have the greatest impact on the islands, and if the government does not have a holistic long-term territorial rejuvenation mindset, the future of Taiwan, natural disasters, will be omnipresent.