The invention provides a method for removing nitrate nitrogen in a water body, which comprises the following steps: 1, adding ferrous sulfate heptahydrate, polyethyleneglycol and graphene into deoxidized distilled water, mixing to prepare a suspension, then adding a potassium borohydride solution into the suspension, stirring, filtering, and washing to obtain graphene loaded nano iron; and 2, uniformly mixing the graphene loaded nano iron and a water body to be treated, and then performing constant-temperature oscillation treatment, thus ensuring that the removal rate of nitrate nitrogen in the water body is above 85%. According to the invention, the nitrate nitrogen in the water body is removed by using the graphene loaded nano iron, so that the method is simple in technical process, low in production cost and easy to realize popularization and application, maximally keeps the favorable characteristics of graphene and nano iron, and can efficiently and quickly remove the nitrate nitrogen in the water body, thereby obviously improving the nitrate nitrogen removal effect and having wide application value.