《中华人民共和国水法》是我国第一部重要的水事法典,它对水资源的开发和利用,水利工程的建设、管理与保护,防汛与抗洪等诸方面进行了法律规范。各级政府和水行政主管部门通过全面贯彻《水法》,有效地促进了我国水利事业的改革与发展,保障了国民经济和社会的稳步发展。《水法》作为水的基本法,在制定时,由于受当时人们认识上的局限性和水资源管理现状的影响以及当时立法条件的限制,有些内容已不能适应当前社会主义市场经济体制和依法治国的要求,修改《水法》势在必行。笔者就《水法》中的法律责任谈几点粗浅的看 The Water Law of the People’s Republic of China is the first important code of water affairs in our country. It carries out legal regulation on the development and utilization of water resources, the construction, management and protection of water conservancy projects, flood control and flood control. Governments at all levels and administrative departments of water administration have effectively promoted the reform and development of China’s water conservancy through full implementation of the Water Law and ensured the steady development of the national economy and society. As the basic law of water, when making “Water Law”, some content can not adapt to current socialist market economy system and rule the country according to law because of the limitations of people’s understanding and the current situation of water resources management as well as the restriction of legislative conditions at that time. The request to amend the “Water Law” is imperative. The author on the “Water Law” in the legal responsibility to talk a few superficial look