For instance, there has long been talk about installing a proper sewage treatment system in Taipei, but currently only 43 % of Taipei homes are connected to it. The sewage from most Taipei homes pours out, untreated, into rivers. The capitals of the advanced Western nations would never have allowed such a situation to persist.
「論精緻、論多元，台北不會輸，但論起大刀闊斧的建設，台北就差了一截」，陳威仁不諱言，像是台北衛生下水道吵嚷多年，至今鋪設率只有四成九，表示台北的家庭污水有一半是直接流進了河川，先進國家首都是不會容許這種情形存在的。