Investigation of the Qualifications of Underground Water Commission in Water rights of Iran

Global water crisis and governments’ efforts to combat drought and famine and their effects have made governments do their best to control and properly use underground water resources. A breakthrough in the field of legislation in the water sector was the adoption of “Water Act and its nationalization”. The big change in this law was the definition of water rights system based on licensing exploitation by the government. The main purpose of the saidlaw was sustainable development of water resources. Any exploitation of these resources were under the supervision of the government and was possible onlyby acquiringa license from the government. The law of fair distribution of water and the law of determining the destination of water wells without exploitation license has been predicted in Licensing Commission and the Commission of Underground Water. Accordingly, the present study investigates their qualifications in the Water Lawof Iran, relying on legal texts and judgments of the supreme judicial authorities