The Comparative Investigation of the Performance of the Eight & Ninth Administrations in Islamic Republic of Iran with Emphasis on the Water Resources Policy Making; The Case Study: The Crisis of Water Resources in Isfahan Province

Environmental issues play a vital role in public policy studies, and among these issues, scarcity of water resources and water crisis enjoy specific importance; in a way that many researchers believe that war on water resources will be inevitable in future. Thus, the present article aims at investigation of the performance of two different administrations in Islamic Republic of Iran with respect to policy making of water resources in Isfahan province. The method of data collecting in this project has been mainly based on analysis of the ratification approved by the eighth and ninth administration. Of course, in some cases, interviewing with elites have been made. The results indicate that there are undeniable similarities between the policies made by these two administrations in this regard and the main difference is that in the ninth administration the trend of dam-making and over extracting of water resources in the upper province of Zayanderud River was dominant; whereas in the eighth administration a set of policies were made regarding water resources.