In the title compound, [Cu(CH(3)COO)(2)(C(18)H(16)N(2)O(2))]·H(2)O, the Cu(II) ion is six-coordinated in a typically Jahn-Teller distorted octa-hedral environment defined by two O and two N atoms from the ligand and two O atoms from acetate anions. A linear chain structure propagating in [010] is built up by inter-molecular O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the uncoordinated water mol-ecules.