To solve the problems which is found during the water consumption account assess under the strictest Chinese water resource management standard, we explored suitable ways of gross industrial water comsumption accounting method, based on analyzing industrial water consumption of Jining City. We took typical enterprises, which are selected according to the result of cluster analysis, as the example to reckon the gross industrial water consumption. By comparing the accounting data with measured data, we evaluated the applicability of the accounting method. The result shows that the relative error between the acconnting value and the actual value of the gross industrial water consumption of Jining City is 4. 66%, and using typical enterprise as an example to account industrial gross water consumption is reasonable.