Abstract: Water resources is material foundation of the sustainable development strategy.Sustainable development and utilization of water resources is an important guarantee to coordinate the development between water resources and social economy.On the basis of the evaluation systems which consists of water resources and social economy index build in the article,the coordinated development degree of 17 cities in Hubei province was calculated using a coordinated development degree model. Temporal and spatial variations of the coordinated development degree of water resources and social economy were identified. The results show that the water resources level in Hubei province lags behind the social economic level, and mutual effect is significant. From 2006 to 2015, the coordinated development degree of the two elements exhibits a significant upward trend while the rank correlation coefficient is 0793 2; The coordinated development degree between water resources and social economy reaches a high value for 17 cities in Hubei province. Polarization is detected in the space distribution feature. The coordinated development degree level in central and eastern region is higher than that of northwest and southwest region