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TAIWAN'S WRA TO REVIEW ISLE'S REQUEST TO BUY WATER FROM CHINA.
KINMEN, June 2 Asia Pulse - The Water Resources Agency (WRA) will form a special task force to study the feasibility of allowing the outlying island of Kinmen to purchase water from China, an official said Sunday.
Chen Shen-hsien, head of the WRA under the Ministry of Economic Affairs, made the promise while meeting with Kinmen County Magistrate Lee Chu-feng over the issue.
Chen traveled to Kinmen over the weekend to exchange views with Lee on the island county's request for procuring water from China to help quench its thirst for water.
Lee said he keenly hopes the central government will give the green light to Kinmen to introduce water from the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian to help resolve the county's water shortage problems.
Kinmen, which lies closer to Fujian than to Taiwan proper, has long been troubled by inadequate water supply and poor water quality in its reservoirs, Lee said, adding that the county's groundwater has been overly exploited to meet its water demand.
"If government authorities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait support our proposal, we'll be able to introduce raw water from the Chinese mainland for farmland irrigation or for household use after purification, " Lee said, adding ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, TAIWAN'S WRA TO REVIEW ISLE'S REQUEST TO BUY WATER FROM CHINA.