Taking 4263 core journals of domestic water resources management research papers included in the CNKI databaseduring 2007 -2017 as the data sources, the technology text mining analysis tool CiteSpace was adopted to analyze the timedistribution, institutional distribution, author distribution, research hotspots and trends of scientific research papers on waterresources in recent years, and the knowledge map of domestic water resources research was drawn. The results indicate that thenumber of China's water resources research papers has been shown a gradually increasing trend in the past ten years, and therelationship between the authors and between the research institutions have becoming closer. In addition, High frequency words,such as water resources management, water resources carrying capacity, water resources assessment, have been studied recently. Andthe words are closely related to the strict water resources management system， the water use permit and the total amount of watercontrol which are related to the macro policy of water resources in China. The most stringent water resources management systemand the construction of water ecological civilization will be the themes in the forseeing future.