The purpose of this paper is to investigate the balance of recharge and discharge of ground-water from streamflow hydrographs without considering different hydrogeological conditions of basins. Two methods were applied at Cho-Shui Shi basin in Taiwan. The first method of recession-curve-displacement is used to estimate ground-water recharge and assuming the linearity of the Master Recession Curve during times when direct(surface) runoff is not significant or when the profile of the ground-water head distribution becomes nearly stable. The second method of base-flow-record estimation is one of base-flow separations, and has a relatively arbitrary procedure of estimating a continuous record of ground-water discharge, or base flow, under the streamflow hydrograph. In the second method, the mean ground-water discharge is considered the effective recharge under long period of stream flow hydrograph and neglects the water balance of changes in storage.