Largest reservoir drops to 10.71%
Staff writer, with CNA
Capacity at the Zengwen Reservoir (曾文水庫), Taiwan’s largest reservoir, had as of yesterday fallen to 10.71 percent, its lowest level of the current shortage.
There was some rain in the reservoir’s catchment area on Sunday and Monday, but water levels only increased 10mm, despite artificial cloud-seeding operations, Southern Region Water Resources Office deputy head Tsou Han-kuei (鄒漢貴) said.
Later on Monday, capacity fell to about 11 percent after water was released to the Wushantou Reservoir (烏山頭水庫), Tsou said.
The Zengwen Reservoir, which spans Chiayi County and Tainan, is pictured from Chiayi yesterday.
Photo: CNA
The two reservoirs are connected, and the Zengwen Reservoir normally releases water to the Wushantou Reservoir to produce electricity, he said, adding that the water is then distributed to the greater Tainan area and the Chianan Plain (嘉南平原).