Analysis the position of stakeholders toward to water governance in Taleghan watershed

The lack of a comprehensive system for identifying the role and understanding of the structural relationships of local water users in the local stakeholder’s network is one of the most important challenges for the integrated management of water resources and the governance perspective. Thus, identifying and analyzing canyons, as the most important element of planning and implementing activities related to water resources management, is one of the requirements for integrated management and the establishment of optimal water resources management. In this research, in order to understand this complexity in the field of water management, social network analysis method was used to measure the cooperation relation of local users as the executive arm of the water resources management plans in the top of Taleghan watershed. Based on the analysis of the micro indicators of the network, local leaders have been identified in water resources management and the modularity in the macro level of the network has been considered as an effective size in increasing social capital and in line with the success of participatory management plane. The results indicate a moderate separation of the local stakeholder’s network, which indicates a moderate fragility in the relationship of cooperation among the local stakeholders. So that the most internal ties of stakeholders is the Gatedeh Village with about 380 transplants and the lowest with 283 transplants in the village of Mehran. Also, according to the results of the analysis of the middle and middle level index of some water resource users, they have been placed in a key position. These are known local leaders who, based on their authority and social influence, can play a significant role in establishing water governance and establishing links with other operators at the local level, above all other actors based on cooperation ties.