Today, Taiwan's groundwater is polluted with agricultural pesticide and fertilizer residues and with heavy metals, and excessive pumping by illegal fish farms means that Taiwan's annual abstraction rate exceeds the natural rate of replenishment.
今天台灣地下水遭農藥、肥料遺留的重金屬汙染，非法魚塭無限制的超抽，已讓台灣每年地下水抽取量超過天然補注量，東、西兩岸都鬧地層下陷。