This paper aims at providing both an overview of the recent national water management policy and an analysis of the existing status of water users and their problems as well as their management in Chanthaburi Basin, Chanthaburi province. Both traditional water users' organization and formal water users' organization at the community-based perspective were studied and analyzed. It was founded that the traditional water users worked harder and stronger than the formal water users did. Additionally, the paper attempts to propose some strategies toward water user's strengthening which will be used as a model for community's water management in the future.