Challenges in Water Resources Management in Taiwan - Chain Reactions from Increased Rainfall Intensity under Global Warming

Abstract

In the summer of 2015, a super typhoon strike in the Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan [1][2]. This super typhoon which strikes northern Taiwan was triggering a massive landslide in the upstream of the water treatment plant. Due to this condition, most of the Taipei citizen suffered from the turbid tap water [3,4]. The river water was too turbid to be treated due to the sediment from the landslide; therefore the turbid water was delivered directly through the pipe to people houses[2]. In the last view decade, this event has become the most significant threat the water resources management in Taipei. On the other hand, this event can be evidence of climate change. Last years, in 2018, there are lots of flooding event all over the world for example in France[5], Myanmar[6], India, Spain, Indonesia[7], Mexico and Taiwan.