Online Access: www.absronline.org/journals International Journal of Operations and Logistics Management Volume 4, Issue 1 e-ISSN: 2309-8023 Pages: 27-42 p-ISSN: 2310-4945 March, 2015 Presenting a Strategic Plan of Integrated Water Resources Management by using SWOT in Bushehr Province Seyyed Reza Mousavizadeh1, Sediqeh Khorrami2*, and Marziyeh Bahreman3 1. Phd commerce management, department management of payamnoor university, Tehran, Iran. (
[email protected]) 2. MA student of executive management, department management of payamnoor university, Tehran, Iran. (
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[email protected]) Arid and semi-arid lands are faced with water stress. In turn of the millennium, many semi-arid and arid regions of the world, including Iran are facing water problems. Shortage of water resources and the mismatch between needs and available resources, the global management of water systems has encountered serious challenges. One of the successful solutions to problems in many parts of the world, experience, participation of water users and other stakeholders in water resource management, which has become imperative. Strategies require a realistic understanding of the surrounding environment. Outside, joined the opportunities available to companies and organizations, and also in the direction they make threats. In this study, in order to derive strategies for in management of water resources, SWOT strategy formulation technique which is used by internal and external factors affecting watershed groups, mining strategy and quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix using the group selects strategies. For this reason, the weaknesses, strengths, opportunities and threats of the use of experts and experts in the field of water and a review of studies in the field and brainstorming and group decision-making and the extraction rate and rank the importance of each of the factors in evaluation matrix were determined.