But the 100,000 tons that the Nanhua Reservoir can supply per day are less than one-third of the 350,000 tons the city requires. Since the city has to rely on the Kaoping River for the remainder, Kaohsiungers look skeptically on water company pronouncements and are in the habit of lugging containers out to buy water from trucks.
然而，由於南化水庫的供水量一天大約只有十萬噸，還不到高雄市民一天三十五萬噸用水量的三分之一，其他仍要靠高屏溪水，高雄人「不相信自來水公司」，還是不改買水喝的習慣。