Abstract: According to analysis results on the reasons of 17 times accidents of water inrush in Jiaozuo coal mining area, this article presents the following countermeasures against preventing accidents of water inrush:strengthening guide, strictly supervising, strengthening work of basic geology, leaving waterproof pillar reasonably, strengthening faults monitoring, perfecting dewater establishments, electing reasonable water-control plan and so on.On these work, we take the outstanding achievement of no water inrush accidents taking place during the past 21 years.These water control measures would be useful for other similar areas.