Taiwan Water Corporation

Taiwan Water Corporation
台灣自來水公司

Industry	Water supply
Founded	1 April 1973[1]
Headquarters	North District, Taichung, Republic of China
Area served	Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Lienchiang
Key people	Juan Kang-meng (Chairperson) Hu Nan-tzer (President)
Parent	Ministry of Economic Affairs
Website	www.water.gov.tw

The Taiwan Water Corporation (TWC; Chinese: 台灣自來水公司; pinyin: Táiwān Zìláishuǐ Gōngsī) is a state-owned water utility providing water supply to Taiwan and offshore islands of Republic of China. The company is headquartered at North District, Taichung.

History

In 1972, President Chiang Ching-kuo gave an instruction for Taiwan to set up a water corporation at a provincial level to effectively develop public water supply system. In 1973, the Taiwan Provincial Government set up a preparatory office for Taiwan Water Corporation.

Former chairman Hsu Hsiang-kun was arrested on bribery and corruption charges in September 2007,^[2] and indicted in August 2014.^[3] Hsu had contracted Kintech Technology Company to expand two water purification facilities in 2002. The project deadline was extended twice to November 2003 and March 2005. Hsu then accepted NT$5 million to grant Kintech a third extension to September 2007, by which time the project was completed.^[4]

Organizational structure

• Department of Planning
• Department of Public Works
• Department of Water Supply
• Department of Business
• Department of Finance
• Department of Materials
• Department of Water Quality
• Department of Industrial Safety and Environment Protection
• Department of Information Management
• Department of General Affairs
• Department of Accounting
• Department of Human Resources
• Department of Civil Service Ethics
• Water Loss Management Center
• Bidding Center

Branch offices

TWC Keelung City branch

• Keelung City
• Taoyuan City
• Hsinchu County and Miaoli County
• Taichung City and Nantou County
• Yunlin County and Chiayi County
• Tainan City
• Kaohsiung City, Pingtung County and Penghu County
• Yilan County
• Hualien County
• Taitung County
• Changhua County
• New Taipei City

See also

• Energy in Taiwan
• List of companies of Taiwan

References

1. "About Us". Water.gov.tw. Retrieved 2014-04-21.
2. "Taiwan Water chairman Hsu, four others arrested". Taipei Times. 8 Sep 2007. p. 2. Retrieved 2 Sep 2014.
3. Chen, Sophia; Kao, Evelyn (1 September 2014). "Taiwan Water Corp. ex-chairman indicted on corruption charges". Central News Agency. Retrieved 2 September 2014.
4. Chen, Ted (2 September 2014). "Taichung prosecutors indict ex-TWC chair for bribery". China Post. Retrieved 2 September 2014.