Assessment and Prioritizing of Drinking Water Resources Risks in Rural Areas

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 line's border, lack of water resources and reservoir's 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.