Professor of civil engineering at National Taiwan University Lee Hong-yuan notes that, confronted by the floodwaters now and continuing climate change, we must completely rethink our approach and understand that water cannot be "controlled," "this kind of 'control' isn't about the flow of the rivers, but about mankind's inappropriate use of the land and water!"
台大土木系教授李鴻源則指出，面對先天的山高水急、後天的氣候變遷，我們必須徹底改變思維，體認到水是不能被「治」的，「該治的不是水和河流，而是人們對於土地和河川的不當利用！」