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Managing water resources from the past has been a concern of managers and decision-makers in different societies. With the development of various sectors of industry and agriculture and the increasing population that has increased the need for water resources, traditional management of water resources has been challenged. Managers and decision-makers in this sector are faced with a large amount of data with a variety of characteristics and complex relationships among them, whose analysis and management are difficult in some basins through traditional analyses. Data mining is a powerful technology in the management and organization of high volume information. In this chapter, while introducing various data mining methods and their related terms and concepts, and describing the importance and necessity of using data mining methods in water resources, its application in predicting water quality …