Lin points out that in the second half of 1994, when there was a drought throughout Taiwan, an area of nearly 100,000 hectares of fields in western Taiwan went without irrigation water, which was transferred to industrial and residential users. But the amount transferred only totaled 1.5 MCM.
林尉濤舉例，民國八十三年上半年，全台發生嚴重乾旱，西部地區一期稻作全部停灌，面積達十萬公頃，當時移轉給民生、工業用的也只有 1.5 億噸。