Legislators harbored suspicions that the Water Resources Agency had long ago received documents alerting it to the potential of a water shortage, but they neglected their duty to notify their superiors in a timely manner. The Control Yuan also formally admonished the Water Resources Agency (which is under the Ministry of Economic Affairs), as well as the water company and the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park, for their poor planning.
立委因此質疑，經濟部水利署早接到缺水通知公文，卻未及時向上呈報處置，有失職之嫌，隨後監察院也通過糾正經濟部水利署、自來水公司、科學工業園區管理局三個主管機關。