Abstract: Water environmental pollution is rather serious in our country,thus it is urgent for the government to increase investment in constructing and running urban sewage treatment facilities,preventing and controlling rural sewage source,water- body clearing and comprehensive treatment,and fundamental research and technical popularization of water-pollution protection.In industrial pollution abatement,government should make rules to increase enterprises’ investment in controlling sewage.In addition,government’s investment mechanism in protecting water environment could be diversified,for example,a pattern of public-private partnership could be adopted.

Key words: water environmental protection, government investment, public-private partnership