Assessment and Prioritizing of Drinking Water Resources Risks in Rural Areas Case study: Villages in Central District of Minoodasht Township

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Lack of safe drinking water especially in Third World countries such as Iran is one of the fundamental problems. Hence it is necessary to apply underlying policies while different managerial  aspects of this vital resource to be considered.  The current study through  identifying   and classifying  risks which threat the  drinking water sources in villages of the central district of Minoodasht township, has accessed and prioritized them . Research method in this study is descriptive - analytical type and done by measurement technique.
The under study statistical sample are villages with  Dehyari. The model used in this study is Fuzzy TOPSIS. The results indicate that the highest risk is related to the risks relevant with physical characteristics of water resources and reservoirs and  the risks resulting from human factors,  the  risks related to natural factors and locating  water resources ,reservoirs and  water quality  are placed at the  next rank. The highest risk  in different groups is relevant with the  lack of or non specifying the resources, reservoirs and transmission lines' border,  lack of water resources and reservoirs' map, transmission lines and distribution network, evaporation and loss of water in reservoirs or resources and lack of possibility for  development of water distribution network and the lack of  continuous monitoring of water quality by the in charge organizations.
 

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  • Receive Date: 09 June 2015
  • Accept Date: 09 June 2015

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