Pingtung old timers recall: "Every family had its own artesian well. You didn't need tap water at all. You just stuck a bamboo pole in the ground and the water would come bubbling up."
平均一年約十億噸的地下水補注量，在民國 70 年代以前仍綽綽有餘；「家家都有自流井，根本不需要自來水，竹竿往地上一插，水就冒出來，」這是老一輩屏東人共同的記憶。