The lower of job demand while the need of human is going higher becomes the reason why
human always try hard to fulfill their needs. This case is also undergone by the villagers who
live in Karangtengah, Subdistrict of Wonosari, Gunung Kidul regency. With limited crops,
many villagers there work as limestone miner in order to fulfill their daily needs. Researcher
interested to do study research in Karangtengah village due to some issues: how is activity of
limestone mining in that area, and how is the impact of the limestone mining toward the
environment damage in that area. The aim of this research study is to know how far the
implemetation of controlling the environment damage due to limestone mining after mining
activity is done in research area. The result of the research study shows that mining activity
which is done by villagers is still done in traditional way and so far the impact of mining
activity towards the avaibility of water in reaserch area is not abvious yet. Reclamation
process or controlling of environment damage after mining activity in research area is also
not implemented in maximal yet, so that if there is no one take care of this situation, it will
give bad impact towards the avaibility of the water in that area next day.