AS TAIWAN’S SUMMERS get increasingly hotter, water becomes life in the most literal sense. Under the scorching summer heat, the residents of Tausa (山里部落), a Sediq buluo (部落/village) in Southern Hualien like to cool off at the nearby riverbed of the Fengping River. It’s a stunning scene–as one of Taiwan’s last free-flowing rivers, the Fengping majestically emerges from the towering mountain range…