The Application and Effectiveness of Passive Defense in the Iranian Water Resources Planning

Optimal management, planning and exploitation of the Iranian water resources are the biggest challenges facing to achieve sustainable development. There are various problems and failures in this area which needs to be considered by the relevant authorities and officials such as the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Agriculture-Jihad and social individuals and groups .The paper investigates the application of passive defense for planning water resources of our country as well as increases the necessity of their consideration and management in accordance with the principles and objectives of passive defense through introducing existing water resources. Therefore, the passive defense and its requirements also its role in spatial planning as the main pillar of national development planning have been initially introduced. Furthermore, its applications for the Iranian water resources planning have been addressed including food security, internal management of water resources, marine and costal management as well as transboundary water diplomacy and its control.