The water resource issue not only imposes an impact on national relations，but also bringing about influence among other issues. Water Resouce has direct influence on regional governance，affecting the sustainable development of social economy. Thus，China should recognize the co-existing character of water resource from a strategic perspective，and also adopting a systematic cooperation approach to deal with the degrading trend of water governance. From the cases of the United States，Japan，Austrilia，Canada and Russia，this paper has a review of different governance models of foreign countries，such as centralized governance model，decentralized governance model and centralized-decentralized governance model