In developing and utilizing water resources and in controlling water disasters, planning should be performed in a comprehensive and systematic manner with all aspects taken into account and with emphases on multiple purpose uses and achieving maximum benefits so as to allow full play to the multiple functions of water resources. And the development and utilization of water resources shall conform to the overall arrangement for flood control, follow the policy of deriving benefits while mitigating damages, and take into account the interests of both upstream and downstream, both left and right bank as well as all involved regions, so as to fully realize the comprehensive benefits of water resources.
But the first thing we must be learnt is to close the tap after using it.
我們不能使自己的眼淚成為地球的最後壹滴水。而且在許多貧窮的地區很多人都得不到幹凈的水，我們應該節約用水。
開發利用水資源和防治水害，應當全面規劃、統籌兼顧、綜合利用、講求效益，發揮水資源的多種功能。並且開發利用水資源，應當服從防洪的總體安排，實行興利與除害相結合的原則，兼顧上下遊、左右岸和地區之間的利益，充分發揮水資源的綜合效益。
但首先，我們每個人必須學會用水後關緊水龍頭。