Tuesday, June 1

This Anti-drip law drives me crazy.
Starting June 1, the Cabinet-level Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) will use Article 27 and Article 50 of the Waste Disposal Act (廢棄物清理法) to impose fines of between NT$1,200 and NT$6,000 on violators if their air conditioners are found to drip water, which is deemed as pollution.
Meanwhile, particularly in Kaohsiung, you can't drink the water, you can hardly walk down a sidewalk or under a qilou 騎樓 (pedestrian arcade) because of the parked cars and motorcycles or other miscellaneous junk, not to mention the ones that are driving there, or the danger in crossing the street. As far as Taiwan's dangerous traffic is concerned,
Taiwan's rate of accidental deaths is far higher than other developed countries, except South Korea, according to the most recent report by the WHO in 1996.

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