The conflict with Taiwan's water resource development and industry water of climate change
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Zeng, wen-Hsueh
Abstract
Even though the high annual rainfall in Taiwan, it is still persecuted by the shortage of water resource. Taiwan is small in area but densely populated, and the mountains is too high to keep most water resource, so the government preferred to build large surface water infrastructures such as reservoirs to solve the perennial problem of water resources shortage. And if the water demand increases or the lack of water becomes serious, the government is also used to build reservoirs to keep more water. Formosa Plastics Corp’s (FPC) sixth naphtha cracker complex completed started in 1997, Ji-Ji Weir started providing water in 2001. In the past decades, Zhuo-shui River and the area of middle Taiwan has been harm very intensely. Something weird usually happened around the area, for example the petrochemical industrial accident, critical air pollution、high levels of PM2.5, the cancer rate of the around residents rose distinctly. After the weir emptied the water sources of Zhuo-shui River, it made the problem of land subsidence become severer, and the naked river bed downstream caused drought and Aeolian Dust. Furthermore, sixth naphtha cracker transferred agricultural water when water deficit over a long period of time. In 2009, Kuo-Kuang petrochemical plant arrived Ta-Cheng Town, it share the water source of Da-Du Weir with Central Taiwan Industrial Science Park’s (CTSP) fourth-phase. It means the tragedy will replay which Ji-Ji Weir just has happened not long ago. Since 2000, the governments have made principal sustainability strategies and action guides in succession. Most of this announcements emphasized that Taiwan has paid too much attention to expand economic, it brought the damage of environment and sustainable development of generation to generation. And this announcement also said that the related policies will be made according by the principles like justice between generation, social justice, carrying capacity of environment, internalizing the costs and international participation, establishing sustainable development strategies, practicing real action in the future. This research contrasts Ji-Ji Weir with Da-Du Weir and then found that water resources and industrial polices did not abide by the sustainability announcement, they still are made for developing economic but sacrificing environment. The thought of water utilization did not get rid of large surface water infrastructures and states allocate resources for financial group. The damages basis on high energy and high water consuming petrochemical industry combine the environmental risks that made by extreme climate change were multidimensional. Water resource policy and industrial policy should amend the direct to sustainable paradigm, and also incorporate the spirit of citizen deliberation to reduce the conflicts.
Subjects
water resource policy
climate change
sustainable development
risk society
petrochemical industry
Formosa Plastics Corp’s sixth naphtha cracker complex
Kuo-Kuang petrochemical
Type
thesis
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