The invention discloses a water fire extinguishing system for high-voltage direct-hanging battery energy storage and a control method thereof. The water fire extinguishing system comprises a fire control host, an environment temperature detector, a gas detector, a smoke detector, a user switch, an acousto-optic alarm, a high-voltage direct-hanging battery energy storage system emergency stop switch, a fire pump, an A-phase water spraying pipe network unit, a B-phase water spraying pipe network unit and a C-phase water spraying pipe network unit, wherein the environment temperature detector, the gas detector, the smoke detector, the user switch, the acousto-optic alarm, the high-voltage direct-hanging battery energy storage system emergency stop switch and the fire pump are respectively connected with the fire control host; and the A-phase water spraying pipe network unit, the B-phase water spraying pipe network unit and the C-phase water spraying pipe network unit are respectively distributed over an A-phase energy storage battery cluster, a B-phase energy storage battery cluster and a C-phase energy storage battery cluster in a high-voltage direct-hanging battery energy storage system. The system and the method can achieve the functions of rapid positioning of faults, manual and automatic coordinated safety control, rapid partition spraying and the like, the advantages are obvious, and accurate, safe and rapid fire extinguishing is facilitated.