Thus a Council of Agriculture irrigation official is quoted as saying that any river water not used for irrigation is wasted as it flows out to the ocean, and therefore as much as possible should be extracted from waterways.
也因此，我們聽到農委會水利主管官員說：溪水不用也是徒然流向大海，因此農業灌溉用水應盡量利用河川引水。