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        Officials are calling the current drought Taiwan’s worst in more than half a century. It is __31.__ enormous challenges to the island’s semiconductor industry, for chip makers use lots of water to clean their factories and wafers. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a major chip maker in the world, is an increasingly indispensable node in the global supply chains for smartphones, cars and other keystones of modern life. As worldwide semiconductor supplies have already been strained by surging __32.__ for electronics, the added uncertainty about Taiwan’s water supply is not likely to ease concerns about the tech world’s __33.__ on the island and TSMC.
        So far, TSMC, whose headquarter is located in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan, says the drought has not affected its production. But as Taiwan’s rainfall becomes no more predictable, the island is having to go to greater and greater __34.__ to keep the water flowing to its all-important semiconductor industry. In recent months, the government has been adopting a package of measures, __35.__ seeding the clouds above reservoirs, building a seawater desalination plant in Hsinchu, installing a pipeline connecting Hsinchu with the rainier north, reducing household water pressure, and beginning shutting off supplies for two days each week in some places.

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