analysing Intervention of the Supreme Council for Water in Water Resources Governance of Iran: An Analysis based on Enactments of Supreme Council for Water (2010-2019)

The Supreme Council of Water (SCW) on highest level of political power of water governance has directed the actors and facilitated the linkage between actors and action area (agriculture, drinking, industry, and environment). Describing this responsibility of SCW based on its enactmentsfrom 2010 to 2019 is the main purpose of this research. In order to obtain the purpose, the Content Analysis and Network Analysis were applied in this study. Based on the content analysis of SCW documents, the actors of first level of political power (Ministry of Energy, Planning and Budget Organization, and Ministry of Agriculture Jihad) are the most hegemonic of all actors in action arena. Also, the network analysis of “the linkage of actors-action area” demonstrate that an asymmetric nested structure of water governance has formulated in Iran and has had low capacity to develop the social learning. However, the SCW could be effective by considering on institutionalization of continuing education in action arena.