Too heavy a burden Former EPA director Jaw Shau-kong recently drew up a list of "seven major problems" behind the Shihmen Reservoir's poor water quality and heavy silting. But only one--the adverse natural geology--is a "congenital defect." The rest are all "acquired dysfunctions."
前環保署長趙少康曾為石門水庫水質不佳、泥砂淤塞歸納出「七大問題」，其中只有天然地質不佳一項是「先天不良」，其餘均為「後天失調」造成。