Liu Ming-lung, secretary-general of the Environmental Quality Education Foundation, notes that wet paddy field has a number of useful environmental functions, including stabilizing flow volume in rivers, absorbing excess in times of heavy rains and floods, improving water quality, reducing soil erosion, and improving air quality.
環境品質文教基金會秘書長劉銘龍指出，水田有穩定河川流量、調節暴雨洪峰、淨化水質、降低土壤沖蝕、淨化空氣品質等生態機能。