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Si Yang Junior High School Changhua County,Taiwan (2015 CyberFair Project ID 7890)
Taiwan,
Changhua
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 7. Environmental Awareness
We estimate 10 student(s) from 13 to 14 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Situated at the southern tip of Changhua County, Xizhou Township won this name as it is located at the submerged/emerged land where Siluo River and Siluo River (derived from Jhuoshuei River) are running through. This township boasts a historic and a natural feature, namely, Xizhou Sugar Plant and Jizaipi Canal. The former was a major sugar plant decades ago, as the ordinary people of old times depended a lot on sugar plants. In the 1980s, Taiwan Sugar Corporation (referred to as Tai Sugar) reduced its production immensely, and started to sell large pieces of land for residential buildings. In the process, many precious old trees were chopped down, while the Japanese-style dormitories and old structures such as Shicui Building had been torn down. In 1999, some of the land that possessed by Tai Sugar were imposed by the local government and rebuilt into the Township Office and a forest park. The Jizaipi Canal was constructed in the Japanese-colonized period, which was the first ever channel built by the government agency and the second largest irrigation system all over Changhua County. The Jizaipi Canal derived the water from Jhuoshuei River via Xizhou Township for irrigation over southwestern Changhua. In recent years, as the local government planned to establish Phase 4 of Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP-IV) in Erlin, it was planned to intercept and draw water from Cicai Irrigation. However, due to resistance of farmers, the issues of water resource allocation were widely discussed. Finally, the government followed the farmers’ opinions, transformed CTSP-IV into a precision machinery park, and canceled the water diversion project. The settlements in Xizhou Township are developed along the ditches, because they are full of sediment. Tje agricultural products growing in such land and moistened by Jhuoshui River are fragrant and sweet,. Jhuoshui River is rich in trace elements. The rice produced here is both fragrant and chewy, so “Jhuoshui Rice” is famous in Taiwan. Cizaipijun aqueduct not only breeds generations of Xizhou people, but also produces excellent agricultural products like pearl-guava and malabar chestnut for Taiwan.
Project Description: Rich in agricultural products, Xizhou Township is an important agricultural township in Taiwan. Cizaipijun aqueduct takes the water from Jhuoshui River to irrigate the agricultural field in the southwest of Changhua, being an important irrigation water resource in Xizhou Township. In 2001, after Jiji Weir became the water source dispatching hub of Jhuoshui River, it was frequently said that the water for Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant repelled the agricultural water, and the irrigation water in Cizaipijun aqueduct was “supplied for four days while stopped for 6 days”. In 2011, there appeared the problem of water use due to the settlement of CTSP-IV, which more manifested the importance of agricultural water for the agriculture-oriented Xizhou Township. The agricultural water does not only influence the growth of agricultural crops, but also influences the ecological environment of biological diversity. With Cizaipijun aqueduct as the research target, our Cyberfair project extends to the water resource problem in Changhua County. The main research questions are as follows: 1. What’s the current status of water resource allocation in Changhua? 2. What’s the influence of operation of Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant on the water resource allocation in Changhua? 3. Conflict between agricultural water and industrial water-discussion on CTSP-IV case 4. What’s the importance of agricultural irrigation water? 5. Summer water party-I love water: present the team research achievements splendidly in diversified forms like lyric adaptation, novel creation, drama performance and micro film shooting. It is hoped that this Cyberfair project will provide everyone have a deeper understanding to the hometown, improve awareness to the hometown culture and bring the environmental topic into class to understand the relation between local environment, culture and ecology from more aspects.