International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage Commission Interationale des Irrigation et du Drainage

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:

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

Strategy Themes: Irrigation and Drainage
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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

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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.

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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

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