Minister Ho Mei-yueh, who offered to resign several times because of the Taoyuan incident, says that this water shortage was indeed a natural disaster, but in its response to the disaster the Ministry of Economic Affairs is not without some responsibility. If it had put in place some control mechanism to deal with water resources when there was time, damage would have been somewhat less.
桃園大停水事件，數度請辭獲慰留的經濟部長何美玥表示，此次缺水固然是天災，但在因應方面經濟部並非完全沒有責任，如果及早建立水資源控管機制，損害就會少一點。