For instance, Taiwan has been struck by many landslides in recent years, and requires large quantities of geotextiles-heavy-grade textiles laid under or around civil engineering structures to prevent erosion by groundwater movement. The currently planned high-speed rail system alone is expected to require several million yards of geotextiles.
譬如近年飽受土石流侵害的台灣，需要大量的邊坡防護地工織物（鋪在地下以防止水土流失），光是興建高鐵，預估就需要數百萬碼的地工織物。