Groundwater in Taiwan: Introduction

The shortage of surface water resources has been a global problem nowadays, and thus groundwater has become an important alternative to supply for human activities. In the last decades, water demands in Taiwan have increased drastically due to the rapid development of different socio-economic sectors, including: industry. Because of the uneven spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall and insufficient water storage facilities in Taiwan, groundwater has played an important role in agricultural productivity while remained as the ultimate source of freshwater at places where surface water has exhausted. Groundwater offers reliability and flexibility in access to water where irrigation canals fail to meet agricultural water demands. Prediction on the state of groundwater levels is critical for water resources planning and management (Tsai et al., 2016).

Taiwan groundwater region map

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