The emphasis includes reducing the number of industrial consumers of water, encouraging agriculture to engage in fallowing and forest plantations, guiding aquaculture to move toward saltwater or brackish water aquaculture and to get increased control of groundwater and promote the use of "public wells."
水利署官員表示，重點包括減少耗水產業、鼓勵農業休耕造林、輔導養殖漁業朝海水養殖或半鹹半淡水轉型，加強地下水管制，推動共同使用的「公井」等。