Maopuwei elders can all remember the time there was a fire during a water shortage, so that in the end they had to resort to using human waste (stored in a pit for use as fertilizer) to extinguish the flames.
茅埔圍的老一輩都還記得當時因為缺水，最後用來撲滅火災的功臣是「茅坑裡的水肥」呢！