An engineer's nightmare Although reservoirs mean people no longer have to tailor their water consumption to the weather, unlike the ever-flowing natural reservoirs, artificial reservoirs are "born to die." "What's more," says NTU geography professor Chang Shih-chiao, "from an engineering standpoint, Taiwan doesn't have any suitable sites to build dams."
水庫雖然讓人不再看天用水，但不同於生生不息的天然水庫，人工水庫卻是「先生先死」，「不斷做壩，不斷死亡」，台大地理系教授張石角說：「更何況由專業來看，台灣根本沒有好壩址。」