| The small water hydraulic projects are managed mainly by towns or village groups in China. Some owned by collectives or individuals are contracted and managed by individual, more public welfare projects such as dykes and dam in medium and small rivers are managed mainly by the state. When these water hydraulic projects to all set up, the state will not input to these projects and has delegated responsibility to local governments and groups. Being short of funds, managers and technicians, some of small water hydraulic projects lack of reasonable and effective operational management mechanism.The paper mainly introduces the background of the small water hydraulic projects and the practical situation of operational management, defines the types of these projects that be studies, and elaborates characters of the small water hydraulic projects, features of management and current difficulties of operational management. Some reasonable measures and strategies are given to solve these problems from diverse analysis, and that provides theory foundation to guarantee the benefit of a large number of small water hydraulic projects when the state has delegated responsibility to local governments and groups. |