Limitation of water resources and their role in Khorassan Razavi rural area in stability

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

Majid  yasoori ¹ (دانشیار دانشگاه گیلان)

Received: 2007-06-15 Accepted : 2007-09-16 Published : 2008-02-20

Keywords: Regional Development, KHorassan Razavi, Limitation of water resources, Rural area,

Abstract :

Khorasan province in the east part of Iran faces with deficit of rainfall and draught because of locating on arid belt as well as being far away from humid centers. Increasing growth of population, need for agricultural and animal products, increasing need for water supply in the industry sector, mean while, and the limitation of water resources, on the other hand, bears server problems for the development of province. On the other hand, inadaptability of potentials and capacities and the restriction of water resources as well as the exploitation procedure have increased the development challenges of the province due to inappropriate settlement of the population and activities. Severe shortage of water resources resulted from unauthorized and excessive exploitations, population growth, and increase of demand in different sectors have made the role of this vital material in regional development more sidnificant. Therefore, establishing a balance in rate of water consumption and revived water in the region in tandem with the land use (land preparation) policies is one of the most important measures which are necessary to be taken in the later phases of optimal exploitation of water resources (increase of the irrigation yield). In other words, paying no attention to the present situation of explotiting water resources, removing exisiting bottlenecks, not applying land preparation policies in settlement of population and activities, will confront the region with essential challenges