Abstract

Currently, the physical development of water resources has been somehow limited and water ‎supply is only practical with exorbitant expenses; therefore, non-structural measures that have ‎been neglected over the past years can be used at a relatively lower cost in various water ‎management issues. In Iran, this tendency has been largely the result of the clumsy adherence to ‎modernization theory as the dominant model of development in the years after World War II. In ‎fact, water supply goal cannot be achieved in only one way; many different strategies and ‎methods must be presented in a coherent and integrated strategic plan framework. It should be ‎noted that improving water management requires comprehensiveness and strategic thinking. ‎Today, policy makings for water supply in developed counties are founded on economic, ‎cultural, political, social (custom) and governance structures. For this purpose, in this research, ‎the expansion of logical measures has been considered aimed at improving the efficiency of ‎strategic water management in different dimensions which have been intertwined with each ‎other. The mentioned measures include increasing productivity, balancing supply and demand, ‎valuating and pricing water, forming water market, making cultural capacity, engaging actors, ‎decentralizing and social solutions. Totally, the one-dimensional insight on the water ‎management problem is completely false and rejected, since it complicates the problems and ‎may lead to worse consequences. In order to maintain the efficiency in water management in ‎the future, various dimensions must be identified and mere focus on the structural dimension ‎and water supply avoided to improve the current situation‎‎‎‎‎‎.