Compansation and management of water resource protection area is an example of Taipei water resource protection area

• Main Authors: Mau shan Han, 韓茂山
• Other Authors: Daigee Shaw
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47781021195159081790

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 資源管理研究所 === 90 === Abstract Water not only supplies needs for all the lives, but also maintains humankinds for living, so that how to retain the pure, safe water resource is an important topic for water resource protection policy. Now national water resource policy is to build an upstream water resource district to conform we can have pure, safe drinking water, water resource pollution control is the major policy for the middle and downstream district. There is about one sixth land being managed for drinking water resource protection district in Taiwan. But for the owners of the land that being included in water resource protection area, the different restriction for land using in water resource area makes some invasion to land property rights. That makes the cost for water resource protection be charged on from the people living in this protection areas, the users of water in the middle and downstream areas needn’t share it, though they can enjoy the efficient water resource also. This makes the owners of the upstream district would not like to do anything for water resource protection, it’s not fair, and no justice. Government can use different means to push the owners of the upstream lands doing something good for water resource protection, at the mean time the middle and downstream water users should treasure the water resource. Due to the foreign experiences, in order to use good water resource for the middle and downstream water resource users, following the “users-to-pay” rule they must pay for the owners of the upstream areas that they engage in water resource protection. For example Perrier Vittel S.A., a drinking water company in France compensates the land owners who engage in water resource protection in the upstream area in order to conform the water is pure and clean, in Germany many drinking water companies also compensate the upstream farmers. In our country, if we have to compensate the people living in the water resource protection district? What to compensate that can make something good for water resource protection? For example in Taipei water resource district, adding 0.2 dollar per degree to the water fee for the sake of compensating the people living in the district, also help for local environmental and educational development, social interest, traditional actions, public buildings and another items. This kind of compensation is not useful for water resource protection, but apt to be abused especially for election bribery. Due to the property theory when the people property rights are restricted by the governmental public interest and up to “special sacrifice”, the government should give the property rights owners some compensation. Due to externality theory good water resource is created by means of doing some restriction of the land, this external efficiency should be internalized to compensate to the producers. Due to these theories mentioned above the feedback or compensation fee should be used for the workers who engaged in water resource protection, but not for the public buildings in the protection district. Water resource management should be characterized with watershed, and that charges the water flow rate, quality, flood, and biological condition etc. The stakeholders and civil watershed management department supervise and check the policy together. Using many kinds of tools such as water pollution fee, conservation easement to manage water resource, in order to promise permanent use of water resource.