Liu San-chi, deputydirector general of the Director ate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, says that the reason the provincial government's plan was rejected was that it did not first address the subsidence problem. In four years, Yunlin, Chia-yi and Changhua would again be covered in water and NT $ 10 billion would have been flushed down the toilet.
行政院主計處副主計長劉三錡也表示，省府所提治水計畫之所以遭到否決，在於計畫中並未先解決地層下陷的問題，雲、嘉、彰化地區四年後將全被淹光，一百多億將形同泡湯。