Water pressure in Taichung, and Hsinchu and Miaoli counties is to be reduced around the clock, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said yesterday.

In addition, large non-industrial water users will have to cut daily consumption by 20 percent, it said.

“The reservoirs in those regions are now less than 20 percent full,” Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said after a meeting at the Central Emergency Operation Center on the nation’s water situation. “We have decided that it is necessary to step up water conservation efforts.”

Less than 20%! That's red light flashing level. What happens if you run out?

Interestingly it's just those north eastern counties.