Yet all this talk about "taming" and controlling the Linbian River, if it merely means preventing another collapse of the downstream dikes, is nothing other than addressing the symptoms while ignoring the root cause of the illness. The real question is how the whole river region, including mid- and upstream parts, can be comprehensively managed.
話說林邊溪的「整治」，若只防止下游潰堤，無異只是頭痛醫頭的治標方式，如何以整個流域為範圍做一體治理，尤其是管好中、上游，才是治本之道。