Since 1951, ICID has been organizing its flagship event ‘International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage’ triennially. Since its inception, each year, the congress poses certain questions highlighting the prevalent issues of the time to be addressed by the experts in particular and in general, the stakeholders involved in the field of irrigation, drainage, agriculture water management, flood control, and so forth. 

So far, ICID has held 23 Triennial Congresses, the most recent one being, the 23rd ICID Congress held in Mexico City in October 2017. The 24th ICID Congress will be held at Adelaide, Australia in 2022 on the theme “Innovation and research in agriculture water management to achieve sustainable development goals”.

With time, the topics of discussion in Congress have ranged from addressing the problems related with irrigation infrastructures such as dam construction and safety, maintenance of canals, economics and financing of irrigation and flood control works, rehabilitation and modernization of irrigation and drainage systems, groundwater recharge, water management and institutional aspects, the sustainability of irrigation and farmer participation, food production under water scarcity, poverty alleviation and various environmental challenges. Moving forward, the ICID Congress continues to strive to discuss the state-of-the-art innovation and research in the area of irrigation and drainage. 

For more information about Forthcoming ICID Congress can be viewed at https://icid-ciid.org/event/detail/25