Because water is typically less than even 1 % of a company's total costs, many factories are stuck in the conception that "water is cheap" and put little emphasis on raising efficiency.
由於台灣工業用水的成本佔總投資成本不到 1 %，許多工廠仍停留在「水為廉價品」的觀念，並不看重用水效率的提升。