To promote the “National Water Environment Improvement Project” and “Water Conservation Strategy for Reservoir Watershed Project,” which have been designed to achieve the objectives of the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program pertaining to the water environment, Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has initiated a project related to water pollution reduction and water quality improvement management. The Ministry of Economic Affairs not only approved 71 projects belonging to capital accounts in 16 counties/cities but also aided 14 counties/cities to approve projects belonging to current accounts in 2019. By the end of 2019, there are 83 projects belonging to capital accounts and 48 projects belonging to current accounts are awarded.
The goal of this project is to assist the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program management test and tracking performance. The project attended the budget tracking monthly meeting, conducted three national forward-looking project review meetings, and co-organized six local government supervision meetings. Moreover, to preview the implementation performance of the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program, the project completed four outcome films and two engineering documentary in the Northern Taiwan, which established and managed the forward-looking water environment community website. (@iwater TW). Through cooperation with online celebrities, we promoted five pieces of graphic and audio productions, and collected information from the EPA’s water quality protection public website. In this way, the promotion of river water quality improvement results have expanded, which can be demonstrated through the government’s performance. Meanwhile, it is expected to raise public awareness of river remediation, thereby not only making people more aware but also increasing participation.
The project also aims at improving the effectiveness of water quality improvement strategy research and remediation measures for three designated rivers and treatment of animal excreta for recycled use in Northern Taiwan. Yet, the water quality supplement survey (including 51 surveys for general water quality and quantity and 81 heavy metal surveys) was completed, three designated cause-and-effect diagrams of river pollution load was updated and drawn. Apart from what is mentioned above, three river remediation tracking reviews were organized to discuss the pollution remediation strategy by coordinating the rectification of various units, thereby achieving the goal of having no severely-polluted stations in Taiwan by 2021.
So as to continue to promote the total quantity control methods of water pollution in Taiwan, the plan involves conducting four review sessions of the Agricultural Water and Soil Pollution Control Inter-departmental Cooperation Conference and local government total quantity control methods’ meeting. Thus, the updating of the list of total quantity control methods of water pollution was completed, and the effectiveness of the implementation of the total quantity control methods of local government and the review of the assessment mechanism was also evaluated.
Based on the reduction of pollution caused by livestock waste water discharge, and the implementation of circular economy for recycling nitrogen fertilizer policy, this project selected Jiaoxi Township of Yilan County as the demonstration town of treatment of animal excreta for recycled use in this year to establish and promote the operation process as well as counseling mechanism. At present, the application for animal excreta for recycled use of 10 livestock farms in the Northern Taiwan has been completed, and a total of 20 small pig farms proposed wastewater management plans and 4 research treatments and animal excreta for recycled use have handled. Furthermore, it presents the effectiveness of the inspection and counseling resources of the animal husbandry in Northern Taiwan.
To assist the EPA in mastering the synergy between environmental protection policies and water quality improvement, the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program performance report, total quantity control methods of national wastewater discharge report, implementation of national water pollution prevention report, remediation planning reports and a summary of designated river remediation events in Northern Taiwan were completed through the implementation of the project.
