"The creation of the national groundwater monitoring network only happened within the past ten years," says Lee Cheng-haw. Because the cost of a monitoring well is high, they were not set up in the past, so there was no way to get a handle on changes in groundwater level, not to mention manage it.
「全國地下水觀測網的建置也是近十年的事，」李振誥表示，由於觀測井費用高昂，以往並沒有設置，因此地下水位的變化無法掌握，更遑論管理。