WORKING GROUP ON ADAPTIVE FLOOD MANAGEMENT (WG-AFM) | International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage (ICID)

Floods are important components of the natural hydrological regime. They are a major source of water; they flush pollutants and sediment from river networks. It is also natural for rivers to overtop their banks with greater or lesser frequency and occupy their flood plains. As a result, floods can cause property damage and bring death and injury to many communities. While there is no evidence as yet that the frequency or magnitude of flooding has increased world-wide, flood-prone areas are becoming increasingly more densely populated and thus more vulnerable. Consequently, a series of major flood disasters has occurred in recent years, with death and destruction being caused by such events in every continent..

“The task is not just to preserve water resources to sustain life, but also to reduce the capacity of water to take life away. …we can and must reduce the number and impact of disasters by building sustainable communities that have the long-term capacity to live with risk.”

--Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General (8 October 2003)

Mandate:

(a) To motivate ICID National Committees in various countries to set up their National Working Groups, (b) To provide guidance to compile, publish, update and/or translate documents on adaptive flood man-agement; (c) To promote inter-disciplinary exchange of information, knowledge and experience, as well as net-working on the topic for proper understanding of the technological developments in the subject; (d) To organize seminars at ICID Congresses and meeting to enhance deeper understanding of adapta-tion to floods and coping with floods including community participation with focus on impact of floods on agriculture water management; (e) To prepare a paper on “Adaptive Flood Management” for publication in Irrigation and Drainage (IRD); and (f) To finalize a book on ‘Adaptive Flood Management.

Established : 2018

Membership

Sl. No.	Name	Email	Country	Position
1	Dr. Kamran Emami	kk*************	Iran	Chair
2	Ms. Sahar Norouzi	sa*************	Iran	Secretary
3	Dr. Abdelilah Taky	ta*************	Morocco	Member
4	Mr. Abdullahi Hassan Hussein - Young Professional	ca*************	Somalia	Member
5	Mr. Ahmad Bin Dakur	ah*************	Malaysia	Member
6	Dr. Akie MUKAI	mu*************	Japan	Member
7	Mr. Arthon Suttigarn	as*************	Thailand	Member
8	Mr. Duan Cheng	me*************	China	Member
9	Eng. (Ms.) Hind Massoud Hamed Elneel	hi*************	Sudan	Member
10	Dr. Hiroki Minakawa	hi*************	Japan	Member
11	Dr. Maheswor Shrestha	ma*************	Nepal	Member
12	Mr. Marcel Marchand	Ma*************	Netherlands	Member
13	Mr. Maurice Roos	mr*************	USA	Member
14	Mr. Olli Matti Verta	ol*************	Finland	Member
15	Mr. R.K. Agarwal	rk*************	India	Member
16	Dr. (Ms.) Rozalija Cvejic	Ro*************	Slovenia	Member
17	Engr. Syed Mahmood-ul-Hassan	mu*************	Pakistan	Member
18	Er. Tóth Tamás	to*************	Hungary	Member
19	Dr. Zhong-Kai Feng	zh*************	China	Member
20	Dr. Hi Lu	hi*************	China	Provisional Member
21	Ir. Hj. Mohd Azmi bin Ismail	az*************	Malaysia	Provisional Member
22	Engr. Muhammad Ejaz Tanveer	en*************	Pakistan	Provisional Member

CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE+

This video was recorded by Chairman, Vice President Hon. Dr. Kamran Emami for the 73rd International Executive Council Meeting held at Adelaide, Australia, October 2022.