Taiwan has its own rain and rivers, so "defend with our lives" is perhaps not an apt phrase. Yet the memory is still fresh in our minds of the public resentment that boiled up in southern Taoyuan a few months ago in the wake of Typhoon Aere and the major water stoppage that it caused.
台灣自家有雨、自家獨享，「誓死保衛」或許談不上，但前幾個月艾莉颱風導致南桃園大停水，缺水民眾民怨沸騰的事件卻是記憶猶新。