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1 . Corresponding Author, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
2 Corresponding Author, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran
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Iran's water management is caught in a chain of command and control, necessitating people's participation in water management. This transition in governance is simply not feasible and therefore, determining how to implement participatory water management has become a critical issue that could be the key for addressing many other challenges.
The purpose of this research is to validate the presence of social institutions in water management, as well as to identify the factors affecting participatory water management, its contexts, impediments, as well as to present the mechanisms for implementing participatory irrigation management in the country.
In order to achieve the goals of the research and to better understanding the capacities, challenges, and solutions, from the method of content analysis and library resources such as articles, theses, lectures, and news from newspapers and magazines were well along with interviews with experts and key stakeholders were used in the discussion of participatory water management.
The results show that over the past few decades despite the structural measures in the water supply and irrigation sector, the non-structural measures, especially in organizing an efficient system and Water User Associations (WUAs) have not achieved a significant gains.Some important reasons include the lack of national belief and conviction regarding the participatory water management, the absence of necessary will among decision-making institutions to institute participatory water management, the dominance of a technocratic approach in the water sectors; the unclear legal status of water user associations and their weakness in technical, financial, economic, legal, and cultural aspects for accountability; the instability of supportive policies in establishing and organizing these associations; weak coordination among decision-making organizations ;concerns of associations at both national and local levels; the decay and destruction of irrigation networks; and resistance in transferring operation, and maintenance of irrigation networks to private sectors are among the factors affecting the activation of participatory irrigation management.Therefore, considering the complexity, flexibility, and uncertainty of water issues, as well as the reality of Educational approaches in management styles regarding participation, and the lack of capacity and capability of the government in water management, it is necessary to seriously organize the actual positions for stakeholders in decision-making processes by their participation in negotiation and consensus-building tools, rather than through directive and authoritative means.
To improve and organize the relationships between water users and governmental organizations, and to align the activities of stakeholders, it is essential to redefine the country's water governance system with mutual participation and accountability among key stakeholders and establishing an institutionalized participatory system of water users based on the technical, social, economic conditions, and cultural concerns in of each region, as well as transferring the responsibilities and authorities to WUAs.
“Conceptualization, J.F. and M.GH.; methodology, M.GH.; software, M.GH.; validation, J.F. and M.GH.; formal analysis, J.F. and M.GH.; investigation, J.F. and M.GH.; resources, J.F. and M.GH.; data curation, M.GH.; writing—original draft preparation, J.F. and M.GH.; writing—review and editing, M.GH.; visualization, J.F.; supervision, J.F.; project administration, J.F.; funding acquisition, Center for Islamic-Iranian Progress Pattern. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”
The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
The authors would like to express their gratitude for the financial support of the Center for Islamic-Iranian Progress Pattern in conducting this research.
The authors avoided data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and misconduct.
The author declares no conflict of interest.
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