6.5) Water in the community

The teaching, research, extension, and educational advocacy functions of a university play a key role in improving water resources management. Therefore, Tamkang University strives to drive the community in the Tamsui area to manage and utilize water resources. Relevant practices are mainly in two aspects:

1. On-campus water-saving actions: In addition to the continuous maintenance and installation of water-saving equipment, the more important thing is the education and promotion of water conservation on the user side. By experiencing the changes in the marine environment and human culture from a personal visit to the Maritime Museum on the Tamsui campus, to the warm reminder of the A6 posters placed in front of each urinal or toilet seat, as well as the promotion on campus multimedia including the Cyber Channel and TKU Times, the school strives to raise the awareness of the importance of water resource management by multiple ways of education in life.

2. Off-campus water-saving cooperation: Out of campus, student clubs take advantage of the opportunity of winter and summer vacation to visit the countryside elementary and middle schools to educate future students; teaching faculties combine the power of the public sector or enterprises to guide the community and people to care for the water resources in the township. In addition, the Information Center for Water Environment, Center for Ocean and Underwater Technology Research, and many other institutions of the university continuously to maintain close cooperation with government water resources related ministries, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Water Resources Agency, and the regional river bureaus to support water management practices with academic research energy and provide opportunities for faculties and students of relevant departments to develop their strengths.
• 6.5.1) Water management educational opportunities
  Provide educational opportunities for local communities to learn about good water management.
• 6.5.2) Promoting conscious water usage
  Actively promote conscious water usage on campus, and in the wider community
• 6.5.3) Off-campus water conservation support
  Support water conservation off campus.
• 6.5.4) Sustainable water extraction on campus
  Utilise sustainable water extraction technologies on associated university grounds off campus.
• 6.5.5) Cooperation on water security
  Cooperate with local, regional, national, or global governments on water security.