Reengineering Taiwan’s Water Agencies — A Case Study of Water Resources Agency,Ministry of Economic Affairs

• Main Authors: CHEN,LUNG-C, 陳隆政
• Other Authors: HUANG,JUNG-HU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25701841048815134051

碩士 === 世新大學 === 行政管理學系 === 92 === In order to pursue economic growth, in recent years, all world countries have arbitrarily increased natural resource consumption so that the phenomenon of green house effects and meteorological changes become more conspicuous day by day. In this context the world is facing a very serious impact of environmental changes we have never experienced. This is also the most serious theme the administration is facing now. In Taiwan we had encountered the worst drought problem in a decade in 2002. The drought problem had started conflicts and arguments between central government agencies as well as between the central and local governments. It is needless to say, we have to make a water resource administrative system sound. It is the most urgent mission of the administration to restructure the water management organization and policies. Water resource management is one of the important links in restructuring government organization. As the progress in environment protection, it becomes the fashion of the modern countries to consider perpetual water resource management ideology, not only consider the water utilization but also its conservation to maximize its marginal utility. Therefore, it is obvious that the restructuring water resource organization is the most urgent. This paper pinpoints to study the above stated problems, and literature review, and questionnaire methods are adopted to discuss and study restructuring of our water resource administrative organization. In the process the study has integrated past study of domestic and foreign scholars reports and findings on water resource management organization and its operations. The special feature of this study is that we have sent questionnaires, and interviewed congressmen, and people. The results were analyzed statistically to understand their view and concerns and also to identify the importance of the functions to be implemented in a restructured administrative organization that would meet demands of people. Furthermore, it was hoped to study and analyze the differences and compatibility between ideology of scholars and desires of elected representatives as well as grass root people. The results of study and conclusions are as followings: A. Water Resource Administration shall grasp an exact demand change of people due to the social development, including population expansion and raised living standard. Besides to identify functions of local district and watershed to respond to the direction of society development, it also needs to supply a fully vital river to push the society forward to the basic blue print of 21st Century. B. Water management problems we are facing now are getting worth day by day. In general speaking, governing water conservancy laws and regulations covers all needed fields but they are disunited and not integrated enough to bring the collective effects into full play. For instance, government agencies involved in water conservancy are scattered in different departments or committees in central as well as in local levels and forming different commending lines that conflict each other and hard to have an unified and synchronized execution of policies. All in all, our water conser4vancy organization as well as administrative laws and regulations are in mess, we have to learn watershed administration experiences of the advanced countries to establish an unified watershed administration to deal with all upper, middle and lower stream problems. C. River stream administration and management plan shall follow the advanced western countries and use a main stream watershed as a plan unit. Five main river watersheds may be established, such as Tanshui Watershed, Tachiahsi Watershed, Choshuihsi Watershed, Tsengwenhsi Watershed, and Kaopinghsi Watershed. An integrated plan is needed to cover flood prevention, water and soil conservation, water quality protection, river streams environment administration, waste and polluted water treatment, irrigation and drinking water quality control for a watershed to upgrade the efficiency of water resource management. D. The result of popular survey analysis showed that most people and congressmen were concerned about those unsolved problems, especially those problems now facing water conservancy. Furthermore it was found that the congressmen and people had a high expectation to the main watershed system. Most responders thought it would be very beneficial to the water resource management and administration when a main watershed system were implemented. Over the 50% of them agreed that administration of rivers and streams should be use a main watershed system. In this context, if the government restructuring water resource conservancy organization towards a main watershed system not only meet desire of the people but also getting more than a half seats of congressmen’s support.