8 Strategic Strategies for Revitalizing the Zayandehrood / Water Crisis in the Center of the Country Can Be Resolved

According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, the intensification of the water crisis in the center of the country in recent weeks has raised the ground for the formation of a wave of popular demands in this regard. Zayandehrud catchment area demanded the expression of problem solving solutions.

After mobilizing public opinion to demand a solution to the water crisis in the Zayandeh River Basin, which directly affects the lives of more than 4 million people, the President in a separate order instructed his First Vice President and the Center for Strategic Studies to find a solution The issue of Zayandeh River.

Depending on the space the shape In this regard, it seems that resolving the water crisis in the center of the country is not a short-term issue, and as this issue is the product of more than 50 years of effective water governance structure, so long-term strategies and policies can heal it.

According to Fars, a variety of various and sometimes unrealistic solutions such as transferring water from the sea to this catchment have been designed to solve the Zayandeh River problem. Accordingly, it seems that this issue can be resolved through a series of realistic policy and implementation measures.

* Management of water resources in Zayandehrud catchment requires policy change

Moving towards solving the Zayandehrud problem in the first step requires a fundamental change in the management of water resources. In this regard, in the first step, the structure of water resources management in this catchment should be changed. Accordingly, the establishment of an integrated unit of Zayandehrud catchment should be pursued in order to solve problems related to water resources, regardless of the impact of non-technical issues.

In the current situation, the multiplicity of provincial political borders and regions formed in the center of the country has caused the Zayandehrud catchment area to be cut by our political border between several provinces, including Isfahan and Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari. This issue, along with the irresponsible statements of previous presidents about inciting ethnic divisions, has caused the structure of Zayandehrud catchment area to be separated upstream and downstream, and policy-making has changed from a macro-basin structure to a partial province-based structure. The area is intensifying day by day.

According to the mentioned points, creating an integrated structure in this basin can eliminate inter-provincial conflicts and move towards effective management. Facilitation Slowly

The next step of policy solutions in Zayandehrud catchment is the formation of the Zayandehrud catchment coordination council with the presence of the governors of Isfahan, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Yazd and Khuzestan along with all related stakeholders, including the deputy ministers of energy, agricultural jihad, mining and trade. Also representatives of agricultural guilds and others ذی‌Benefits The area covered by this river should be on the agenda.

Convening meetings of this council in the presence of all ذی‌Benefits The issue can create the ground for comprehensive planning in the region and provide a space for expressing demands.

The claims made in this council can be transferred to the integrated watershed management structure as a feed of expert studies and by considering considerations Bachelor’s degree in all technical, social and other aspects of later research To be placed.

* Unauthorized withdrawals of Zayandehrood should be stopped

In addition to policy mechanisms that require a change in the approach of water resources management in the country, executive mechanisms in this catchment should be used, in this regard, the first step to solve the problem of Zayandehrud catchment, determine the exact amount of water, share of water, owners The right to share and the environmental water of the Zayandeh River and Gavkhoni Wetland should be in the form of a transparent study agreed by the government and ذی‌Benefits To be determined.

Considering that there is a wide imbalance between water resources and consumption in this catchment area and the water consumption is heavier than the resources, so pay attention to the issue of banning new loading on Zayandehrud water resources before assigning this task. The catchment should be on the agenda.

After carefully determining the water rights of all ذی‌Benefits In the form of new water resources management structures, all unauthorized and out-of-water withdrawals are for everyone ذی‌Benefits It must first be monitored and then stopped to determine the basis for the realization of water allocation models without deviation.

Currently, unauthorized withdrawals in the Zayandehrud Hadd catchment area Distance Water transfer tunnels to Zayandehrud dam and also Hadd Distance Zayandehrud Dam to Cham Aseman Dam has become a scourge of downstream water resources and up to 60% of the water supply of Koohrang and Cheshmeh Langan water transfer tunnels will be used for unauthorized purposes.

Fars News Agency has previously examined the issue of unauthorized withdrawals in a report entitled “The Role of Water Transmission Tunnels in the Zayandehrood Crisis / How Mismanagement Has Intensified the Water Challenge in the Center of the Country.”

* Cultivation pattern and irrigation system should be reviewed to increase water productivity

Another executive solution to solve the problem of Zayandehrud catchment area is the attention of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture to determine the cultivation pattern appropriate to the conditions and also to change the irrigation methods. We have traditional cultivation in these areas wasted Provides water. According to experts in this basin, the establishment of new irrigation models can reduce water consumption by up to 60% and provide the basis for optimal water use.

Due to the changes in temperature and the limitation of the Zayandehrud watershed, drought is an integral part of the water conditions in the center of the country. In this regard, the establishment of a drought compensation fund in the Zayandehrud catchment area can have a significant impact on preventing social dissatisfaction. Accordingly, according to the decision of the Supreme Water Council on the mechanism to reduce social dissatisfaction, consumers in the industrial sector who receive water during drought without reducing their share must pay compensation for water shortages to other consumers in the basin.

In other words, this fund can practically provide farmers with insurance against drought and conditions ذی‌Benefits Improve drought at intervals. Fars News Agency previously raised the issue of limiting the conditions of the Zayandehrud catchment area in a report entitled “65 years of drought and تهالی In the center of the country / 70% decrease in rainfall upstream of Zayandehrood “has been studied.

* Industries invest in evaporation reduction technologies

Considering that 6% of the output of Zayandehrud catchment area is allocated to industries, so paying attention to the use of wastewater can reduce the water used by industries in Zayandehrud catchment area.

Accordingly, in line with the reciprocal sale contracts of water and sewage of the country, industries use the effluent by paying for the transmission network and wastewater treatment network and reduce their share in the use of Zayandehrud.

Furthermore According With a significant volume of evaporation equivalent to 4% of the output of Zayandehrud dam, industry investment to reduce evaporation in the form of closed transmission networks and evaporation reduction mechanism in the dam reservoir, this water can be used by industries.

According to Fars, relying on these eight strategies can provide a solution to the Zayandehrud catchment in the long and medium term and be a step towards solving the challenge in this basin.

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