Analysis of Hydrologic Parameters and Social Relations Network to Recognize and Solve the Water Conflicts (Case Study: Homag-E Payin Village, Hormozgan)

Social changes and water shortagecreate serious problems for policy makers to distribute water justly that lead to water conflictsin small and large social levels. So, this research was done toexplore the relation between social relations and hydrological parameters and to determine the strengths and weaknesses of social relations network in Homag-E payin village located in Hormozgan province. A questionnaire was used to collect the required data and then cooperation network among people to solve the problem of water shortage in Homag-E Payin village was delineated. Authority and role equivalence indices and Visone and Ucinetsoftware packages were used to delineate and to analyze the networks. Results revealed that former relation patterns in Homag-E payin village that were based on the kinship relations have changed following the water shortage problem in this village andnew grouping between residents of this village has shaped based on hydrological parameters. In this regard, policy-makers and planners must be attended more and more into the relations of all issues and their interactions in a watershed; specially, social issues that interacted to all other parameters in a watershed and sometimes, those are the most affective parameters.