Many parts of the world are increasingly facing water shortage and then turning into water crisis. It is generally believed that water scarcity is a natural phenomenon but water crisis is a managerial and governance issue and in other words it is a man-made phenomenon which is mainly related to poor management in the field of population growth and distribution as well as intensity and distribution of economic activities. Although some researchers consider climate change as one of the causes of water crisis, but part of this phenomenon is the result of human activities. Human always affect the geographical space, the quantity and quality of which is often influenced by his type of thinking and thought. At the governmental level, the collective and dominant thought of human beings, which is the criterion for action in dealing with phenomena and areas, is known as political thinking and ideology. Neoliberalism is an ideology that has emerged mostly in the economic sphere in the late twentieth century. The main context of the study is politics and space and seeks to investigate the effect of neoliberal economic policies on the occurrence or exacerbation of water crisis from a theoretical perspective. The research findings show that some major components of neoliberalism such as privatization, decentralized production, deregulation and disregard for the public interest in the form of a wide range of actions, policies and strategies can play a role in water crisis especially in developing countries.