May was a month of water shortages and restrictions on electricity use, which led many providers of services and 2,000 factories to stop operations. People lined up to buy water, and the director of the Water Resources Agency resigned.
缺水限電五月天，導致多種服務業停擺、兩千家工廠停工、民眾排隊買水，也讓經濟部水利署長請辭、台電董事長下台，監察院糾正相關單位。