Impacts of Irrigation Management Transfer process on water user's satisfaction and management improvement in Moghan Irrigation network

Process of Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) is more complicated. Hence, inadequate processis probable. This conclusion refers to FAO research on IMT, within 43 Irrigation networks of 33 countries in five continents. This research identifies the impacts of IMT process on water users’ satisfaction and management improvement in Moghan Irrigation networks. This study focuses on two different levels of ownerships (with less and more than 5 hectares irrigated area). The research method is descriptive-correlation. The population size is 722 water user of 3200 hectares pressurized Irrigation area under Moghan pumping station No.8. Data collected by a questionnaire which its validity was obtained through pre-test. Data analyzed through one sample mean test, Pearson correlation and t-test. This research indicates that Result indicators (=management improvement) of two different levels of ownerships have no sufficient correlation, but in two mentioned levels the Satisfaction and Process indicators had 70% correlation with 90% significant level. Moreover, the mean values of Process indicators in two mentioned levels were higher than expected Mean value. In this case, the Mean values of groups of Satisfaction and Process indicators were also higher. Therefore, this research confirms the direct correlation between Satisfaction and IMT Process, in two different levels of ownerships.