Laundry business is developing rapidly in Jebres-sub district, Surakarta city. The
presence of laundry facilitize the people who lives around like students, workers,
even the residents, which can reduce the load of housework they had without
spending much energy and affordable price for the people.
Laundry is a service that done to the washing process of the clothes. It’s processed
by using the main medium of water, soap / chemical, and washing machine done
by the worker like around 1-5 depends on the business scale. The bad impact caused
by the activity of laundry business is the production of liquid waste in the form of
water detergents containing phosphates high into the drains and it could raise the
negative effects for the environment especially the waste will mixed with ground
water which disrupts its quality. The research conducted in this thesis is an
empirical study that done from the interview with some experts in their fieds and
literature reviews.
The conclusions gotten in this study is the role of the Environmental Agency to
protect the ground water's quality as the results of business laundry activities. In
terms of managing the waste and dispose of the waste has not done well done by
the owner of the businness laundry because of the unwillingness and lack of
awareness of protecting the environment of the laundry activitiesRelated to the ground's water quality protection, it is expected that the
environmental agency can provide education like counseling and control over the
laundry who does not carry out its obligations .
Keywords: laundry, Environmental agency, ground water quality.