Analyze the Effective Factor on the Water Governance in Iran

Issues and problems related to Iran's water resources are not only caused by limited resources but due to the weakness of management procedures. Any policy reform in the field of frameworks and management processes related to the water issues, requires the adoption of a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach in different systems. In this case’s literature, water governance responds to a comprehensive multidimensional approach to water management; which is operational based on the purpose, with a macro-theoretical framework and using the combined research method; firstly the qualitative method of content analysis by coding and forming a network of themes from upstream laws and semi-structured interviews, secondly the quantitative method of Dematel based on the pairwise comparison technique, structurally examines the factors affecting water governance. The results obtained by different dimensions, including management and policy, law, social and cultural, economic, political and environmental, determined that the efficiency of water laws (law dimension), the need to have macro policy-makings (policy-making and management dimension) and the role of political institutions in water sector (political dimension) have the most influential on other factors and it is concluded that the main policies in the current system of Iran’s water governance should be re-formulated based on them.