The Prioritization of Indicators for Evaluating the General Policies in the Water Sector

Document Type : Research/Original/Regular Article

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1 Associate Professor, Department of Water Engineering, Irrigation and Drainage, Faculty of Agriculture, Zanjan University, Zanjan, Iran

2 PhD of Water Resource Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Orumieh University, Orumieh, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Water Engineering, Water Resource Egineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran

4 MA of Law, Faculty of Law, Qom University, Qom, Iran

Abstract

In the literature of water engineering, there has been little research on the control and evaluation of executive plans. Accordingly, preparing a model of evaluation and prioritization for investigating plans through new models based on the latest technological discoveries is imperative, the function of which was analyzed in this article. In this study, the Fuzzy software and weighted aggregated method were employed. To this aim, the Delphi method and a constructed questionnaire (being validated by some experts) were used to prioritize the macro-policy indicators of water sector and measure their weight. They were, then, evaluated based on the data coding and the analytical hierarchy process. Following the prioritization via multifactor fuzzy method, indicators of yearly water usage, water income, sustainability of water resources, and the percentage of product residue reduction were 100, 85.31, 80.47, and 80.02, respectively, which gained the top four ranks among the 20 main indicators for evaluating water industry. However, in the process of analytical hierarchy, the indicators of underground water sustainability, saving water exiting the borders, equipping lands with main and peripheral modern networks, and modern systems of watering scored 100, 50.20, 42, and 23.89, respectively.

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Quarterly Journal of The Macro and Strategic Policies
Volume 9, Issue 36 - Serial Number 4
December 2021
Pages 686-711

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