Basin Water Resources Management in Unite States and Its Enlightenment to China

In order to provide some useful lessons to basin water resources management practice, this paper summarized the successful experience of the two modes of basin water resources management in the United States; one is the mode of the bureau of river basin water resources management represented in Tennessee, and the other is the mode of the committee of river basin water resources management represented in Delaware. The result shows that the improvement in legislation and management and coordination capacity and the increase in multi-stakeholder involvement is the key issue in the water resources management