Unhappy with the unaggressive Meinung People's Association, anti-reservoir activists formed the Alliance Against the Reservoir a little more than a year ago.
有感於愛鄉協進會比較文氣，反水庫運動在行動上必須激進一些，一年多前，美濃地方人士又組織了「反水庫大聯盟」。