When targeting the shortage of water resource management skills at the local level, Kuo Chen-tai argues that if in future the WRD is transferred in its entirety to the central government without giving some of its resources and duties to local government, the inverted pyramid will become even more top-heavy.
針對地方水資源管理人才不足的情形，郭振泰表示，未來三級政府中，如果省水利處完全納歸中央，人才未能下放到縣市、鄉鎮，倒金字塔的情形將更形嚴重。