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Progressing population growth, development of economic activities and human needs for natural resources, including water resources, have created an imbalance between supply and demand, ultimately causing instability and inadequacy of these resources in most parts of the world, especially arid and semiarid regions such as our country. Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate and formulate strategies for improving water resource resiliency of Yazd Ardakan Plain. In this study, in order to achieve the resiliency of Yazd Ardakan Plain water resources, theoretical foundations of the research were initially studied using documentary (library) reviews. After that, model components of the research were refined and evaluated using the Delphi technique and obtaining expert consensus through survey processes and using a questionnaire. In the next step, the SOAR model was adopted in order to analyze the information and formulate a strategy for water resource resiliency of Yazd Ardakan Plain, and describe its strengths, opportunities, ideals and results. Also, Shannonchr('39')s Entropy Algorithm was used to weigh these strategies. Based on the findings of the SOAR model and considering the results of the establishment of water-related economic activities instead of agricultural activities in Yazd Ardakan plain, it shows that this area is in transition from a social-economic structure based solely on agricultural activity to a new water-resource dependent structure which does not fit the concept of transient resiliency. Results of this study show that in order to increase resiliency of the regionchr('39')s water resources, the need for substitution of non-water-dependent economic activities with less pollution such as Green businesses, eco-tourism, renewable energy and low-water industries in land development and planning programs should receive more attention.

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Today, due to water stress Caused by reduced rainfall and drought in the country on the one hand and the growth of uncontrolled consumption of limited water resources on the other hand, formulating and developing strategies to improve planning, management, sustainability of water resources and consumption patterns in The country is a necessity. One of the most practical methods in this regard is to determine and estimate the effectiveness of effective factors in the resilience of water resources in the country. After reviewing related researches, it was concluded that most of the researches done in this regard have been in order to identify the effective criteria in the evaluation, planning and sustainability of water resources systems and So far, no separate research has been conducted to identify the effective criteria and sub-criteria in the resilience of Iran's water resources; However, relying on the results of articles and authoritative references, it was found that achieving the most effective factors in determining the resilience of water resources, using the Delphi method (due to scientific validity and usability at different levels) is possible. Accordingly, the present study has been written with the aim of identifying, screening and prioritizing resilience criteria and sub-criteria using the Delphi method. According to the first step of the Delphi method, first a list of criteria and sub-criteria was selected by reviewing the research background and then evaluated by a group of 24 environmental and water resources experts (called experts) in two stages. The result of this evaluation is to determine 3 ecological, socio-cultural and economic criteria as the main criteria and to extract 9 criteria and 18 sub-criteria. The result was that after prioritizing the sub-criteria based on two factors of degree and percentage of importance, surface water sub-criteria (spring and river) and precipitation with a coefficient of importance of 2.62 and 2.28 as the most important and permeability sub-criteria (drainage) and temperature, respectively. Significance coefficients of 1.23 and 1.31 were identified as the least important sub-criteria, respectively. Also, by normalizing the obtained coefficients for each of the sub-criteria, a linear formula was proposed to estimate the resilience of water resources.

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The importance of industry and its role in a country’s economic growth has been considered as one of the most important economic issues by researchers. In the meantime, the development of industry in Yazd Ostan and the over-establishment of industries in the Yazd-Ardakan plain have caused damage to water resources and increased pollution in this region. This study aims to investigate the resilience of water resources in the Yazd Ardakan plain in terms of industry establishment. In this research, industrial development has been analyzed, at different levels, using dynamic modeling in Vensim Software in the form of system dynamics analysis. The proposed model described industrial development, and using the simulation process, its behavior has been predicted in the next years. The model simulation results showed that the lack of development of large and water-intensive industrial projects in the region would cause the lowest amount of water resources loss in the Yazd-Ardakan Plain. They were determined as effective solutions to improve the resilience of water resources in the Yazd Ardakan plain.