نشریه مدیریت آب
سال چهارم شماره 4 (پیاپی 11، زمستان 1394)

The expansion and implementation of balancing schemes in Fars Province will help the government provide better technical and credit support to improve groundwater levels. Paying for some wells as well as implementing alternative livelihood project with the help of imam Khomeini's relief committee and the vocational education and training organization complements the balancing strategies. In this case, one can expect the Fars province to get rid of the huge danger it faces from destroying its aquifers.

Iran is considered among the countries with limited water resources due to being placed in the arid and semi-arid belt of the world. Although the northern part of the country has a lot of rainfall, much of the country is dry and semi-arid. The distribution of water flows worldwide is also unbalanced and does not fit the population distribution. The spatial distribution of water in Iran is very heterogeneous due to natural conditions. The temporal distribution of atmospheric downturns in the country is similar to that of spatial distribution and its rate in different years and even in different seasons were varied and this has caused many problems in the past few years for various sectors, especially agriculture and cities water supply and have caused a lot of damage to this sectors. Indisputable withdrawal of Underground water is another major issue in the water sector.

There are two major rivers from Afghanistan to Iran; one is Himand (Helmand) which goes to Sistan of Iran and the other is Harirrud which goes to Khorasan. Afghan authorities are now aware of the importance of water and want to prevent it from coming to neighboring countries. Afghanistan, by building two dams, effectively prevented Hirmand river from entering to Iran, and since the 40s AH, a large portion of the population has migrated. Lack of water in some areas has led to a sharp decline in crop production and unemployment and wetland drying up.