Abstract: Recent years, to solve the problem of rural drinking water safety have been highly valued by our party and government, and the unprecedented scale of rural drinking water safety construction was carried out throughout the country. It is necessary and important to do well with operation management of the project, to improve the service quality of water supply, to meet the demand of masses daily life and production, and to utilize the project benefit long-term, sustainably and fully. The paper points out a few problems on operation management of rural drinking water safety project, and simply analyzes the reasons behind the problems. Meanwhile, the paper gives some reasonable suggestions on operation management, and the authors will be happy if the paper can provide some guidance for operation management of the project.