The Examination Yuan confirmed Friday that it will hold examinations to help the Water Resources Agency (WRA) recruit an additional 104 hydraulic engineers over the next two years, after the WRA was censured by the Control Yuan for its lack of expertise. The Control Yuan, the branch of Taiwan's government responsible for monitoring the behavior of government officials, censured the WRA and 13 other central and local government agencies on Aug. 5 for their poor performance and lack of expertise that led to disastrous consequences during Typhoon Kalmaegi in July 2008. The storm caused flooding and landslides in the central and southern areas of the country, leaving 20 people dead and causing NT$1.05 billion (US$34.57 million) in agricultural losses. Taiwan's flood control and water management problems -- and the need for more expertise -- were further exposed in the past week as torrential rains from Typhoon Morakot led to the flooding of over one-quarter of the country's land area and heavy losses of life and property. Following the censure, the WRA requested the Examination Yuan to help it recruit hydraulic engineers. The Examination Yuan, responsible for civil service recruitment and management, will organize special civil service examinations and will require qualified engineers to commit to the WRA for six years before they can work for anybody else. At a press conference Thursday morning, Examination Yuan President Kuan Chung reflected that the government has been bombarded with criticism since Typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan for inaccurate weather forecasting, poor flood control, a lack of hydraulic engineers, and its slow response to disaster relief. He hoped that the government would take these criticisms seriously, saying, 'a civil service system should be sympathetic and responsive to the sorrows of the people. This must be the fundamental attitude of all civil servants.' Dung Bau-tscheng, the deputy chief of the Ministry of Examination under the Examination Yuan, said his agency will meet soon with the WRA, and after understanding its needs will immediately organize the exam. He also announced that once disaster relief efforts are concluded, the Ministry of Examination will contact local governments in eastern and southern Taiwan to find out more about what types of people are needed to prevent future disasters. Aside from hydraulic engineers, the government also lacks experts in land restoration and organization, disaster relief and soil and water conservation, and Tung said the Ministry of Examination will soon organize other examinations to meet this demand. Meanwhile, the Examination Yuan has encouraged its staff to donate one day of pay to relief efforts, while Deputy Secretary-General Lee Jih-Shyan and his disaster relief squad arrived at the disaster relief center at Cishan Senior High School in Kaohsiung County. They reported that people there were in urgent need of relief volunteers, daily commodities and trauma therapy. The second relief squad will bring medical assistance to the south on Friday. Typhoon Morakot battered Taiwan last weekend, dumping a year's worth of rainfall on some areas in three days, triggering severe flooding and deadly landslides. The death toll from the disaster had risen to at least 116 as of 10 p.m. Thursday, with 45 injured and 59 reported missing, according to the Central Emergency Operation Center. 