Abstract:The national water conservancy conference raised the water management to the height of nation management in July 2011.It put forward the guidelines for the Basic Strategy of China Water Conservancy and proposed to speed up the establishment of the three red lines that control the total water resources’ consumption for exploitation and utilization.Based on the author’s twenty six years’ research on water resources,This paper proposed the basic water strategy and established the following specific three red lines: to keep the total water consumption for development and utilization at 670 billion per year before 2020;In terms of GDP per unit of water use,to raise the water use efficiency to the world average at 2010;To make the total amount of waste water and sewage that divided by water function zone no more than fifty eight billion tons(The treated water should be calculated according to the weight.) by 2020.