By reviewing domestic and foreign research progress on the response of information of karst cave drip water to ground conditions,coupled with the research background of global climate change,karst environmental evolution and drip water's physical and chemical indicators,this paper divides the history of this research into three stages: initial stage,slow development stage and rapid growth stage. This paper also systematically summarizes the research results and understandings of drip water's regular monitoring indicators, stable isotopes,major elements,trace elements, and so on. Meanwhile,it concluded the research progress of drip water's response to atmosphere, vegetation,soil and bedrock. It is suggested that the material resource and the hydro-geochemical process of drip water should be explored,the research for drip's sensitivity to indicate environment should be enhanced,the environment response mechanism of drip's information should be deeply probed and comprehensive environment elements of cave systems should be monitored. It is also pointed out that the research on the rocky desertification by drip water's indicators remains relatively weak now,which should be the focused topic in the future.