Premier Wu Den-yih said Monday that Taiwan's flood control facilities -- some of which are designed based on 50-year floods while others are designed to withstand 100-year floods -- need to be reviewed and upgraded in the face of the current climate change. Typhoon Fanapi brought heavy downpours to the whole country Sunday, especially the southern counties of Pingtung and Kaohsiung, where some places suffered severe flooding. Flooding to the extent experienced as a result of Fanapi was expected to happen just once in 200 years, far exceeding what the existing flood control facilities are able to deal with, Wu said while visiting an emergency operations center in Taipei. 'Because of severe climate change, all public flood control facilities -- no matter whether they are expanded existing ones or completely new -- need to be designed with the possibility of such heavy rainfall in mind, ' Wu said. Wu asked the Environmental Protection Administration, the Department of Health and the Ministry of National Defense to help restore the flooded areas as soon as possible, including clean-up, sanitizing and disease control. He also instructed the Council of Agriculture to continue to monitor mudslide- prone areas and to ensure stable prices for agricultural products prior to the Sept. 22 Mid-Autumn Festival. Later in the day, Wu and President Ma Ying-jeou traveled to southern Taiwan to survey the damage caused by the category-3 typhoon. Thousands of people in Kaohsiung County, Nantou County, Chiayi County, Taitung County, Hualien County and Pingtung County had to be evacuated to temporary shelters supervised by the military over the weekend. In Kaohsiung city and county, thousands of homes were severely flooded. In some cases, water levels were reported at over one-story high, leaving cars and motorcycles completely inundated. According to the Kaohsiung city government, over 77 boroughs in the city's 11 administrative districts had reported heavy flooding. 