For Chang Tsun-kuo, who was commissioned by the EPA to make a study of the Shihmen and Feitsui Reservoirs, both the reservoirs are victims of the land speculation in Taiwan. "Problems with water resources show up problems in the system of national land use planning and land management." He says that sky-high price of land on the plains causes people to covet the geologically fragile coasts, mountains and water resource protection zones.
在接受環保署委託對石門與翡翠兩個水庫進行研究的張尊國看來，石門水庫與翡翠水庫都是台灣土地炒作的受害者，「水源問題也是國土規劃、土地管制發生問題」，他說，平地寸土寸金，造成地質環境脆弱的海邊、山上、水源區也遭受覬覦。