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EUROPEAN REGIONAL WORKING GROUP (ERWG)

Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometers or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 countries/states, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, while the Vatican City is the smallest. Of these, 22 countries/States came together in 1995 to establish the ICID's European Regional Working Group (ERWG) with the motto "Comprehensive land and water management in European River basins for the sustainable development of the rural landscape". With 23.2 million hectares of irrigated land and 9 % of the world’s population, the ERWG today provides knowledge transfer and exchange of experiences in matters of trans-boundary waters and land management in European countries; co-operation of experts and organizations engaged in nationaland international objectives and development and promotion of border crossing projects and conferences.

The WG has many Sub-committees working on topics of regional/ local significance. The WG has brought out several valuable publications like:

ERWG Letter
European Sector Vision on Water for Food and Rural Development (Report) - In PDF format
ICID Guide "How to work out a drought mitigation strategy" (Guideline)
Water Resources Management in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovenia (Book)
Diffuse Entries in Rivers of the Odra Basin (Research Report)
Proceedings of several European conferences
Spanish Version of the DVWK Guidelines on How to Mitigate the Drought Effects

The WG has organized 25 Regional Conferences so far on topics of current importance.

Strategy Themes: Irrigation and Drainage
Mandate:

The mission of ERWG is to promote awareness about critical ICID relevant water issues at all levels in Europe and to pay special attention to the environmentally sustainable water management in Europe.

Established : 1995

Chairman Message

Dr. Marco Arcieri, Italy

Activities

Announcement

Membership

Sl. No.	Name	Email	Country	Position
1	Dr. Marco Arcieri	m.*************	Italy	Chair
2	Dr. (Mrs.) Irena G. Bondarik	ru*************	Russia	Vice Chair
3	Mr. Olli Matti Verta	ol*************	Finland	Secretary
4	Ing. Ahmed Abuzeid - Direct Member	ah*************	Germany	Member
5	Dr. Anton Urfels - Direct Member	a.*************	Germany	Member
6	Dr. (Ing.) Klaus Röttcher - Direct Member	k.*************	Germany	Member
7	Dr. (Mrs.) Sabina Seidel	sa*************	Germany	Observer
8	Dr. Irina G. Pankova	ru*************	Russia	Observer
9	Dr. Klaus Dieter Vorloop	kl*************	Germany	Observer
10	Ms. Anu Nemvalts	an*************	Estonia	Representative
11	Prof. Dr. Charlotte de Fraiture	c.*************	Netherlands	Representative
12	Prof.dr.sc. Davor Romic	dr*************	Croatia	Representative
13	Mr. Evgenii Ratkovich	er*************	Russia	Representative
14	Mr. Ian William Makin	ia*************	United Kingdom	Representative
15	Prof. Ing. Ion Nicolaescu	ce*************	Romania	Representative
16	Mrs. Inmaculada Bravo Dominguez	ib*************	Spain	Representative
17	Dr. László G. Hayde	l.*************	Hungary	Representative
18	Mrs. Nato Khutsurauli	na*************	Georgia	Representative
19	Dr. Oliver Nichoslon	ol*************	Ireland	Representative
20	Mr. Pedro Eduardo da Cunha Serra	ad*************	Portugal	Representative
21	Mr. Peter Pribozic	st*************	Slovenia	Representative
22	Prof. Peter Kovalenko	pi*************	Ukraine	Representative
23	Mr. Petra Hellemann	pe*************	Switzerland	Representative
24	Dr. Sami Bouarfa	sa*************	France	Representative

In addition to the below membership, National Committees of Slovenia nominated their representative and Mr. Peter Alexey Yurievich Chair EWTDRA are Ex-Officio Member.

ARCHIVES

The European Regional Working Group (ERWG) of ICID was founded at the 46th IEC Meeting in Rome in September, 1995, and is acting under the motto "Comprehensive land and water management in European river basins for the sustainable development of the rural landscape". The tasks of ERWG can be summarized :

Knowledge transfer and exchange of experience in matters of border crossing water and land management in European countries
Co-operation of experts and organisations engaged in national, supranational and international objectives of water management and irrigated agriculture
Development and promotion of border crossing projects and conferences

AGENDA/ MINUTES/ REPORTS/ PUBLICATIONS

| AGENDA (Previous) | MINUTES (Previous) |

Report of the COSTEA Seminar in Montpellier, November 2022 - Key Messages and Recommendations from COSTEA Network Members to Stakeholders in the Sector of Irrigated Agriculture

Water Saving in Irrigation, Outcome of the Conference, 13-14 November 2019, Montpellier, France

Droughts, Low Flows & Water Scarcity - Outcome of the international Conference, 1-13 December 2019, UNESCO Headquarters (Paris), France

PRESENTATIONS

Gwangju, September 2014

GALLERY

CONCLUDED WORKBODIES/ TECHNICAL GROUPS

AWARDS

INTERESTING LINKS

Sl. No.	Resources
1	Review of the Implementation of the Eu Water Framewok Directive by PH Prof. Em. dr. ir. Bart Schultz
2	Discussion Paper on Use of Peat Lands: Water Management of Farmlands in Peat Areas in the Temperate Humid Zone by PH Prof. Em. dr. ir. Bart Schultz
3	Task Force on Drought Risk Management (TF-DRM)

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