Discovering a potential water supply has obvious benefits for that scheme, not least providing astronauts with a potential reservoir that they can tap into rather than rely on shipments from Earth.

As an example, the water supply planning of new Yanshan town of Guilin is shown in the decision process of optimizing water supply scheme from combination of multi-water sources.

The origin of water right of a water resources scheme is to collect water resources fee and the water right of a water supply scheme is to turn water charges collection into water pricing.