Zahra Tarmohammadi Ghorchi; Gholamhossin Abdollahzadeh; Mohammad Sharif Sharifzadeh; vahab ghezel
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Nowadays, participatory water management receives much attention as one of the key elements of sustainable water resources management. The feasibility of good governance in the process of participation of stakeholders in water exploitation can meet the interests of all users in a fair way. The purpose ...
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Nowadays, participatory water management receives much attention as one of the key elements of sustainable water resources management. The feasibility of good governance in the process of participation of stakeholders in water exploitation can meet the interests of all users in a fair way. The purpose of this research was to investigate the feasibility of good governance in the process of participatory water management. The study was conducted in Payvand Production Cooperative (PPC), Aqqala County. Research method was survey and questionnaire tool was used for collecting the required data. Target population included 400 farmers who were members of PPC and received services related to participatory water management. The data was collected from 196 farmers from 7 targeted villages. Reliability of research questionnaire was approved based on opinion of experts, and its validity was confirmed by Cronbach`s Alpha coefficient in two parts: importance and feasibility of good governance components. Results of evaluating the feasibly of good governance components showed that the majority of respondents believed that the components of good governance in the process of participatory water management in the study area had been considered at an acceptable level. Also, the results of one sample t-test showed that the process of participatory water management in the study area was successful in terms of attention to all five components of good governance, namely, public participation and collective agreement, responsibility and law enforcement, accountability and transparency, fairness and efficiency and effectiveness. Results of independent sample t-test indicated that respondents whose main job was farming (compared to those whose main job was not agriculture) and respondents who received water share in a group manner (compared to those who received water individually) evaluated the feasibility of good governance components at high level.
Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh; Leila Jahangir; mohammadreza mahboobi; vahab ghezel
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One of the main components of sustainable water management is attraction of farmers’ participation in management and maintenance of water networks. Moreover, attraction of farmers’ participation in the process of planning, designing, building, and exploitation of the projects (based ...
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One of the main components of sustainable water management is attraction of farmers’ participation in management and maintenance of water networks. Moreover, attraction of farmers’ participation in the process of planning, designing, building, and exploitation of the projects (based on popular organizations and groups) can impact optimal water management. The purpose of this case study was to investigate the effect of participatory management on optimal water use in Payvand Production Cooperative of Aqqala County, Golestan province, Iran. Survey method and questionnaire was used to collect the required data. Target population included 400 farmers of cooperative members in 7 villages with participatory irrigation management project in Aqqala County. Using Cochran formula, 196 farmers were selected with random sampling method. Validity of research questionnaires was confirmed based on view of experts and its reliability was verified by calculation of Cronbache's alpha coefficients for scale of optimal management, (0.8) satisfaction of project, (0.77) participatory project management, (0.83) and awareness of the current situation (0.73). The comparison of the optimal water management, before and after the implementation of the project by using of Wilcoxon test showed that there was significant difference in means ranking. The result of path analysis showed that the highest impact on final dependent variables of optimal water management was related to “awareness of the present situation of irrigation system”. The variables of level of participation and satisfaction with implementation of the project, background of membership in the cooperative, access to farm road, type of irrigation method, and education were in the next ranks, respectively. In contrast, having a second job had negative effect on optimal water management.