In recent years, more and more people pay attention to the pollution and destruction of water resources. Due to lack of administrative law and civil law, it is necessary for the criminal law to deal with the water problems. In this paper, the necessity and shortage of protection of water resources by the criminal law is discussed. Then, based on the current criminal law, in this paper, some beneficial suggestions with the water liability principle are proposed. The criterion by which to decide whether a person violates the criminal law or not as well as the water criminal object and the water criminal objective conditions are proposed.