Amir Hossein Saeidnejad - Assistant Professor, Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University (PNU), Iran

The relationship between climate change mitigation measures and water is known to be mutual. Mitigation measures can influence water resources and their management, and it is important to recognize this when developing and evaluating mitigation options. On the other hand, water management policies and measures can have an influence on greenhouse gas emissions process and, so, on the respective sectoral mitigation measures; interventions in the water system might be counter-productive when evaluated in terms of climate change mitigation. The most important sections which are commonly discussed regards to the mitigation process are including energy supply, transportation and its infrastructure, residential and commercial buildings, industry, agriculture, forestry, and waste management. Since water issues were not the focus of that volume, only general interrelations with climate change mitigation were mentioned, most of them being qualitative. Several aspects of the mentioned relationship has been discussed in this assessment. Where the measures promote water-use efficiency, they provide potential benefits. But in some cases, the practices could intensify water use, thereby reducing streamflow or groundwater reserves. Agro-forestry systems (plantation of trees in cropland) can provide also multiple benefits including energy to rural communities, but it also may have negative impacts on water conservation. Besides this subjects, such other areas such as cropland management and Afforestation or reforestation process are clearly discussed.

Groundwater, Mitigation, Water resources