A study of the ifissues and problems of the exploitation of the irrigation and drainage networks and significance of people’s participation( Case study: Ardak dam basin )

Subject Areas : Urban and Regional Planning Studies

alireza bani vaheb ¹ , esmat mazlom ²

1 - استادیارگروه جغرافیا دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تربت حیدریه
2 - کارشناس ارشد آب منطقه ای خراسان رضوی

Received: 2007-09-02 Accepted : 2008-09-15 Published : 2016-04-16

Keywords: people participation, Irrigation drainage systems, exploitation and maintenance, Water user assoin,

Abstract :

To provide the food necessities have been a major priority of government projects through recent decades. So, development of agriculture has been considered as a pivot. The lack of water resources because of rising the demand in agriculture, industry, drinking water and environment (as a result of growing population) has brought up the maximum utilization of existing water resources and the improvement of exploitation and production. In country  such as Iran, which water contains a limit potential, the development of agriculture is dependent to it. Thus the existing utilized water and the utilizable one do not meet agriculture development process and growing population’s food. So management of optimum utilization of water along with demand management are important factors to make possible the firm development in economy and agriculture. Leaving the management of systems to private sector or utilizers and their participations are of the proper policies.