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Zahra Rostamian; Bahman Khosravipour; Mansour ghanian
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This quantitative research was carried out with the aim of identifying the driving and deterrent factors in the formation, activity, and development of Khuzestan Province's water users’ associations of irrigation networks. The research method was survey and descriptive-correlational. The statistical ...
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This quantitative research was carried out with the aim of identifying the driving and deterrent factors in the formation, activity, and development of Khuzestan Province's water users’ associations of irrigation networks. The research method was survey and descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all experts of the exploitation companies of Khuzestan Province Water and Electricity Organization (N = 200), 130 of them (n = 130) were selected by stratified random sampling. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire whose validity and reliability were confirmed by agricultural extension and training specialists of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan and the use of Cronbach Alpha test. Data were analyzed using SPSS16 software. The results of factor analysis indicated that the driving factors of water organizations were in 5 groups of production, social capital, legal, economic and executive, which in general explain 68.6% of the total variance. The results of factor analysis indicate that the driving factors of water users’ associations included 5 groups of production, social capital, legal, economic, and executive factors, which, in general, explain 68.64% of the total variance. In the factor analysis, the deterrents of water users' associations were identified as 5 groups including supportive, legal, managerial, extra-organizational and extension factors, which explain 47.29% of the total variance. According to the findings, the share of the promoters and driving factors in the activities and development of water users’ associations in Khuzestan Province is more than the deterrent factors.
Mansour Ghanian; Masoud Baradaran; Erfanali Mirzaee; Khadijeh Soleymani; Sardar Pasha
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Due to the importance of water as a basic element of life and its role as a base for development and sustainability of primordial human civilization in different parts of the world, effective management of water is necessary. World experiences and evidence show that governments alone cannot manage water ...
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Due to the importance of water as a basic element of life and its role as a base for development and sustainability of primordial human civilization in different parts of the world, effective management of water is necessary. World experiences and evidence show that governments alone cannot manage water resources successfully. All of the efforts to find the suitable way for this purpose have concluded that optimum management for water systems will be achieved with adoption of an approach that ensures involvement and participation of all stakeholders. The purpose of this study was to investigate views of water users toward participatory management of agricultural water resources and identifying the effective factors affecting it. The collected data of the questionnaire was analyzed with SPSS (quantitative part) and was added to the findings from water users' workshops and reported. Findings showed that water users believed that their participation in evaluation and investigation of social issues in an area and clarification of the tasks expected from them are the most important items in irrigation management plans. Also, the results of factor analysis of farmers' views revealed that technical, legal, and context factors have affected the success of water resource management plans.