# Taiwan sewer system. Need answers **URL:** \ **Category:** Living in Taiwan\ **Created:** [April 18, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883 "2019-04-18T20:39:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![bdog](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@bdog](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/bdog)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 4:56am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/61 "2020-11-11T04:56:46Z")
Renters… ---
**Author:** ![the\_bear](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/the_bear/32/192391_2.png) [@the\_bear](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/the_bear)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/62 "2020-11-11T05:05:15Z")
I’m sorry, you what? ---
**Author:** ![bdog](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@bdog](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/bdog)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/63 "2020-11-11T05:05:40Z")
I can’t find any info on the wattage of the Japanese type seats. Does anyone know what sort of juice these things use? If you buy one of those, all you seem to need to do is connect to your supply line into the toilet and power it up. ---
**Author:** ![Belgian\_Pie](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@Belgian\_Pie](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Belgian_Pie)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/64 "2020-11-11T05:33:49Z")
> [@urodacus](#): > > Taiwan has a sewer system? It used to be an open ditch sewer until early 2000 in some places. ---
**Author:** ![ma3xiu1](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/ma3xiu1/32/81129_2.png) [@ma3xiu1](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/ma3xiu1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/65 "2020-11-11T05:41:31Z")
> [@bdog](#): > > I can’t find any info on the wattage of the Japanese type seats. Does anyone know what sort of juice these things use? 660 Watts, 100V 50-60Hz for this one > **[Review: Our automated Japanese toilet seat (and how to get your own) | Enjoy...](https://www.enjoythesmart.life/article/gadget-review-our-automated-japanese-toilet-seat)** > > Find out why a simple change to an automated toilet seat can improve your life by leaps and bounds. ---
**Author:** ![Explant](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/explant/32/130551_2.png) [@Explant](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Explant)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/66 "2020-11-11T12:29:03Z")
Those of you that had poop fountains. By chance were these in taller building with water connection in higher floors? That seems more likely than air pressure from typhoons. Although typhoons are wonderful excuses for any number of issues, including shitty engineering and crppy plumbing. Generally they are caused by blocked and full tanks with pressure coming from above. Apartments/highrises seem most common to have this, but rowhousing can too. Anything with pressure coming from higher up will push it down. if the outflow is blocked, your toilet just became the new outflow. i cant imagine how terrible that muct be, especially it being other peoples! ---
**Author:** ![Marco](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/marco/32/179744_2.png) [@Marco](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Marco)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/67 "2020-11-11T13:46:33Z")
I’ve never seen a shitfountain. That’s a thing? ---
**Author:** ![Explant](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/explant/32/130551_2.png) [@Explant](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Explant)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2020, 1:49pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/68 "2020-11-11T13:49:03Z")
As per above, some people seem to have had issues. @urodacus I have had it as well, but luckily it was drain pipes, not sewage. Same issue, bottom gets blocked, so the next lowest opening becomes the new outlet. Gravity at its finest 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Brianjones](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/eada6e/32.png) [@Brianjones](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Brianjones)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2020, 2:50am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/69 "2020-12-28T02:50:35Z")
I found an updated link for the sewage connection stats by city and county. [https://www.cpami.gov.tw/international-focus/sewer-engineering/10808-THE-SEWAGE-TREATMENT-RATE.html](https://www.cpami.gov.tw/international-focus/sewer-engineering/10808-THE-SEWAGE-TREATMENT-RATE.html) ---
**Author:** ![OliviaLinToo](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/54ee81/32.png) [@OliviaLinToo](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/OliviaLinToo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 5:16pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/70 "2020-12-31T17:16:07Z")
> [@Brianjones](#): > > Many areas don’t seem to have been connected yet or else the sewage just conducts the waste directly to the river. It’s truly disgusting! Sure. If you go to some of the more rural areas you’ll see pipes leading from the back of houses directly down to a river. Then you go downstream and see people out wading in the streams. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Explant](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/explant/32/130551_2.png) [@Explant](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Explant)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2021, 11:12am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/71 "2021-01-04T11:12:47Z")
> [@OliviaLinToo](#): > > > [@Brianjones](#): > > > > Many areas don’t seem to have been connected yet or else the sewage just conducts the waste directly to the river. It’s truly disgusting! > > Sure. If you go to some of the more rural areas you’ll see pipes leading from the back of houses directly down to a river. Then you go downstream and see people out wading in the streams. 🙂 Aka, most of taiwan outside city centers. It is improving lots though. But still most land areas go to the ditch. ---
**Author:** ![Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bl4ckus-H34dus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/72 "2024-10-12T23:14:13Z")
Why do people always count North America to the developed countries? You guys never seen German Waste Water Treatment. That is first world. The rest I saw in the Americas or Asia was between second and third world sadly. ---
**Author:** ![Explant](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/explant/32/130551_2.png) [@Explant](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Explant)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/73 "2024-10-13T19:03:23Z")
> [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](#): > > Why do people always count North America to the developed countries? You guys never seen German Waste Water Treatment. That is first world. The rest I saw in the Americas or Asia was between second and third world sadly. Simple. Arrogance. Also ifnorance probably. Loads of people do this. We are normally way shittier than we give ourselves credit for. ---
**Author:** ![Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Bl4ckus-H34dus](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Bl4ckus-H34dus)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/74 "2024-10-14T07:51:51Z")
On a side-note: [https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d8df9d5e-6378-4726-bcc9-0e28cb488afd/audio](https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d8df9d5e-6378-4726-bcc9-0e28cb488afd/audio) I made a quick podcast about Tamsui river sewage issues over history. Just gave LM Notebook a couple source articles I could find and let it go wild making an AI podcast. ---
**Author:** ![Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Taiwan\_Luthiers](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Taiwan_Luthiers)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/75 "2024-10-14T10:57:55Z")
Well, danshui river used to smell horrible, like trash and sewage smell. Around 2010s it massively improved. There were some houses built over the river right before the mrt station, on stilts. It looked shanty. It’s all gone now. ---
**Author:** ![Explant](https://forumosa-12829.kxcdn.com/user_avatar/tw.forumosa.com/explant/32/130551_2.png) [@Explant](https://tw.forumosa.com/u/Explant)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883/76 "2024-10-14T17:43:56Z")
Indeed, many waterways (rivers to ditches and everything in between) have improved in spots. Down south, kaohsiung s love river people go for dates now. I doubt anyone would dare touch the water still, but it’s improved night and day. But to be honest, he sewage connectivity isn’t my biggest worry. Although it has improved the most probably in terms of issues with our lower river areas. [Previous page](https://tw.forumosa.com/t/taiwan-sewer-system-need-answers/178883.md?page=3)