Abstract: The research progress of management on sewage outlets of rivers at home and abroad is summarized in four aspects regulations and policies, model technology, monitoring indexes, and techniques management. Sewage outlet of rivers is a main way of land area pollution source inflow into surface water body. Pollutant emission is increasing and river pollution is getting worse. Therefore, effective supervision and management as well as water environment monitoring network are key steps to protect surface water environment. Compared with the high standards of water quality protecting and monitoring system, the spatial and temporal coverage and overall service functions integrated in today’s monitoring and management system for sewage outlets are insufficient. Monitoring must be further modernised, monitoring and management system should be efficient, and management on sewage outlets of each river basin should be comprehensive.

Key words: sewage outlets of rivers, regulations and policies, model technology, indexes of monitoring, techniques of monitoring management