On 16 December 1972, President Chiang Ching-kuo instructed that a water corporation be set up to develop and unified public water supply system island-wide.

Taiwan Water Corporation was then inaugurated by the provincial government in 1974.

[1] Former chairman Hsu Hsiang-kun was arrested on bribery and corruption charges in September 2007,[2] and indicted in August 2014.

[3] Hsu had contracted Kintech Technology Company to expand two water purification facilities in 2002.

Hsu then accepted NT$5 million to grant Kintech a third extension to September 2007, by which time the project was completed.