Mansour Ghanian; Masoud Baradaran; Erfanali Mirzaee; Khadijeh Soleymani; Sardar Pasha
Abstract
Due to the importance of water as a basic element of life and its role as a base for development and sustainability of primordial human civilization in different parts of the world, effective management of water is necessary. World experiences and evidence show that governments alone cannot manage water ...
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Due to the importance of water as a basic element of life and its role as a base for development and sustainability of primordial human civilization in different parts of the world, effective management of water is necessary. World experiences and evidence show that governments alone cannot manage water resources successfully. All of the efforts to find the suitable way for this purpose have concluded that optimum management for water systems will be achieved with adoption of an approach that ensures involvement and participation of all stakeholders. The purpose of this study was to investigate views of water users toward participatory management of agricultural water resources and identifying the effective factors affecting it. The collected data of the questionnaire was analyzed with SPSS (quantitative part) and was added to the findings from water users' workshops and reported. Findings showed that water users believed that their participation in evaluation and investigation of social issues in an area and clarification of the tasks expected from them are the most important items in irrigation management plans. Also, the results of factor analysis of farmers' views revealed that technical, legal, and context factors have affected the success of water resource management plans.