Based on the analysis of the similarities and differences ofthe methods for determiningthe water resources fee for water drainage andintakeas well as the essence of water resource fee of drainage, two methods for determining the collecting standards of water resource fee for drainage are proposed in theory. Oneis the modified method to directly use the collecting standards of water resource fee for water intake. The other is the marginal opportunity cost method of water resource fee for drainage. At the same time, the characteristics of the current collecting standards for water resource feefor drainage of bothmining and building operation in some provinces of China are analyzed. The proposed methods are employed to analyze the reasons for these characteristics. It is demonstrated that the collecting standards ofwater resource fee for drainage are higher than those for water intake withdraw in some provinces of China.