ROC businessmen paid their first environmental users 'fees in 1973, following implementation of the country's first environmental legislation, the Water Pollution Protection Law, which required factories failing to meet standards for waste water discharge to buy water treatment equipment.
我國業者在一九七三年第一個環保法令「水汙染防治法」實施之後，正式支付了第一筆環境使用費﹘﹘花錢購置汙水處理設備，以達到排放標準。