The R Role of Peo ople’s Part ticipations Towns s in Protec ship of Ra cting the W asht Water Res sources in the

This study aims to detect appropriate methods in order to motivate the utilizers of water resources and encourage their participation in protecting the water resources in the township of Rasht. In this investigation, besides collecting data from the archives of the Gilan Province Regional Water Stock Company, another essential part of data was collected through questionnaires. In order to justify and represent practical approaches aimed at protecting the water resources, decreasing constitutional costs and the quality of people participation in order to construct , mend and reconstruct the third and fourth-grade irrigation and drainage channels, it was acted to hold apprenticeship workshops in all the under-study parts by the coordination of the related authorities. The studied variables included age, literacy level, the amount of people awareness of the water resources, manner and motive of participation, satisfaction and etc. The population included all the 83413 water suppliers of subsidiary regions of Rasht township from which 386 utilizers were selected as the sample through performing a classificatory random sampling in all the above-mentioned sections. Also the general Cochran formula was used for sampling. The collected data was analyzed by the SPSS software and the non-parametric method. The findings indicated a significant correlation between variables of the cultivation area, the role of the administration, the effect of substructures expansion, the manner of participation with variables of participation amount and tendency to cooperation. But no significant correlation was observed between the number of family members and the amount of participation.