State of Water Resources in Iran

Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Response-Outlook framework, general state of water resources in Iran is evaluated. Methodology (the driver-pressure-stateimpact-response (dpsir) framework)The DPSIR framework, is completed form from an earlier Pressure State Response (PSR) structure, was introduced by the European Environment Agency in the 1990s.It is a frame work is used to connect environmental issues to social and economic driving forces.The DPSIR framework consists of 5 elements which have causal effects on each other as follow: 1 A. Drivers which are mostly defined as global, regional or local social, demographic and economic factors, which act as causal links to exert Pressures on the environment.B. These pressures can lead to intentional or unintentional changes in the State of the environment.C. Changes in the state will lead to changes in the quality and functioning of the environment causing Impacts on the different parts of the environment.D. The Impacts will affect the welfare or well-being of natural systems and human communities.E. Responses are actions taken by groups or individuals in society to prevent, compensate, ameliorate or adapt to changes in the state of the environment by changing drivers or pressures through actor driven shifts in behavior, prevention, mitigation or regulation.In this study the general state of water quantity and quality in Iran is evaluated using DPSIR logical frame work.