Abstract: Water is seriously insufficient in Beijing.Now average possession quantity of water per citizen is 300m3 in Beijing,only 4 percent of average value of the world and 16 percent of the whole China.With the development of the city,the shortage of water resources will be an obstacle of the sustainable development in Beijing.In this paper,characteristics,the status and shortcoming of water resource utilization in Beijing were analyzed,including surface water and ground water.Climate change and its influences on water resource were analyzed emphatically.In addition,demand and possible supply quantity of water resource in the future fifty years was predicted.Based on the above analyses,some meteorological countermeasures were presented to prevent the serious shortage of water resource in order to maintain its sustainable development and utilization.

Key words: Beijing, Water resources, Climatic change, Sustainable development, Countermeasures