Taiwan's underground water resources are replenished at a rate of 4 billion cubic meters per year, but last year as much as 7 billion cubic meters was actually extracted, more than half of it pumped by illegal fish farms which pay neither water charges nor taxes.
國內地下水一年補注量是四十億立方公尺，去年實際抽用量已達七十億立方公尺，其中有一半以上是被不繳水費、也不繳稅的違法魚塭抽走。