The industrial water pollution in China’s urbanization process is both an ecological technology issue and a social governance problem. Based on sociological dimension,it is found that there is an explicit social fact that formal rules and the practice norms are separated in industrial water pollution field. The formation of social fact is related with certain action logic: local policies surpass formal regulations, local governments are coerced by polluters, implicit violation actions appear from backstage to the front and violation actions change from endogenous ones to exogenous. The main social causes of such action logic lie in evaluation mechanism in the context of imbalanced institutional structure, supervision mechanism in the context of imbalanced power structure and the limited internalized regulation drive. Therefore, the governance mechanism of industrial water pollution chiefly includes main structure optimization, regulation culture reproduction and effective social supervision.