The invention provides a public participative 
water saving method under the background of city water resource shortage and ladder-like water price 
enforcement; the method comprises the following steps: 1, collecting and 
parsing data; 2, using the ladder-like water price as background, and building a resident tradable 
water volume measuring and calculating method based on the elasticity price theory; 3, building a resident-newly built 
industrial water transaction mode using a 
water supply company as a trading agent; 4, determining the trading price under the resident-newly built 
industrial water transaction mode; 5, making a ladder-like 
gain distribution mode under the resident-newly built 
industrial water transaction mode, and computing 
water saving gains. The 
water saving method can effectively utilize unused domestic water configuration 
water volume in water resource programs, can motivate residents to save water through water saving gains, and can use the resident tradable 
water volume to develop new industries, thus providing the 
ant colony effect of the resident 
water consumption body in city water saving program, solving the problems that a new industry has no water to use, and improving the whole water saving level of water resource shortage cities.