About us

The Research Center for Soil & Water Resources and Natural Disaster Prevention (SWAN) was officially founded in 2000, after the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech) in Taiwan (Republic of China) signed the Cooperation Agreement with the Water Resources Bureau, (predecessor of Water Resources Agency, Ministry of Economic Affairs, WRA). Both SWAN and WRA have been devoted in promoting soil and water conservation and proceed researches, educational awareness and relative prevention works. The work of SWAN, as well as its achievements, led the WRA in 2004 to sign a permanent Memorandum of Agreement with the SWAN and authorized it to get involved more drastically in projects and works of the local communities and the surrounding areas.

Services

• Groundwater Contamination and Transport
• Groundwater Recharge
• Soil and groundwater pollution prevention
• Environmental Evaluation
• Land Subsidence Prevention
• Groundwater resource development assessment and analysis
• Hazard identification, survey and technical support for evidence gathering
• Assisting local governments in operating, planning and creating strategies and drills in matters of disaster prevention and response
• Assisting institutes and educational centers of all levels to enhance campaigns of disaster prevention and awareness
• Disseminating disaster prevention and response matters
• Assisting and promoting communities focusing in disaster resistance
• Assisting and facilitating institutes for certification in matters of environmental education
• Assisting volunteers for flood control and environmental education training schemes
• Dispatching a counseling team for sustainable and rural regeneration (Collaboration, Contribution, Permanency)