Today, agriculture consumes 70 percent of all global water withdrawn for consumptive use, up to 95 percent in several arid and semi-arid countries. In fact, irrigated agriculture has played a major role in the development of rural economies, supporting economic growth and poverty reduction. The irrigation water, passing from its source to the field and then finally consume by crops, has been through many links, including water resources allocation, conveyance, distribution, irrigation, soil evaporation and plant transpiration, etc. So, corresponding measures should be taken at each of these links. In order to reflect the essence of water-saving irrigation in a comprehensive and objective way and make the issue less complicated, the irrigation water consumption, irrigation water using efficiency, and engineering and technical requirements, etc. have been selected as the key criteria on water saving in irrigated land.
There is a vast range of techniques and technologies available for minimizing water losses and maximizing water saving in agriculture and efficient use of irrigation water, ranging from simple tubes for field water application to sophisticated canal automation and telemetry. Water saving practices in irrigated agriculture can be categorized as engineering, management, technology, technique, policies and institutional. The success of these parameters depends on the level of their integration and socio-economic dimensions of a given locality. The modern irrigation knows how to use less water to produce more agriculture products.
Sl. No. | Name | Country | Position | |
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1 | Eng. Rafat Nael AbdulGhani Al-Intaki | ra************* | Iraq | Chair |
2 | Dr. Mohamed Elhagarey | el************* | Egypt | Secretary |
3 | Mr. Abijit Joshi | jo************* | India | Member |
4 | Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed Sheikh | as************* | Pakistan | Member |
5 | Dr. Deepak Khare - Direct Member | kh************* | India | Member |
6 | Dr. Derya Coşkun | de************* | Turkey | Member |
7 | Mr Egemen Gürsoy | eg************* | Turkey | Member |
8 | Ir. Felipe Dantas | fe************* | Australia | Member |
9 | Prof. Gu Tao | 13************* | China | Member |
10 | Eng. (Ms.) Hala Ramadan El-Sayed Ismail | ha************* | Egypt | Member |
11 | Er. Isomiddin Akramov | is************* | Uzbekistan | Member |
12 | Ms. Jianxin Mu | ji************* | China | Member |
13 | Prof. Michele Pernoila | in************* | Italy | Member |
14 | Dr. Mohamed H. Amer | dr************* | Egypt | Member |
15 | Dr. P. Soman | dr************* | India | Member |
16 | Prof. Qi Xuebin | qx************* | China | Member |
17 | Prof. Dr. Ray Shyan Wu | ra************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
18 | Dr. Shao Yiu Hsu | sy************* | Chinese Taipei Committee | Member |
19 | Dr. Tasuku Kato | ta************* | Japan | Member |
20 | Mr. Yalçin Dalgin | ya************* | Turkey | Member |
21 | Dr. Yujiang Xiong | xi************* | China | Member |
22 | Dr. Khumbulani Dhavu | dh************* | South Africa | Provisional Member |
23 | Dr. Man Singh | ma************* | India | Provisional Member |
24 | Dr. Muhammad Ashraf | mu************* | Pakistan | Provisional Member |
25 | Ts Ir Wan Noorul Hafilah Binti Wan Ariffin | no************* | Malaysia | Provisional Member |
In addition to the below membership representatives from IWMI and FAO are Permanent Observers.
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Report on New Advances in Water Saving in Irrigation. Presented during 25th ICID Congress, November 2023, Visakhapatnam (Vizag), India
Water-Saving in Agriculture - A Roadmap to ICID Vision 2030, An ePublication, March 2022
Bioscience Research Articles:
1. Evaluation of prototype machine for planting discontinuous ridges to optimize efficiency of surface irrigation system in Ras sudr-South of Sinai by A.A. Meselhy, and M.E. Elhagarey
2. Integrated system for maximizing water unit productivity of Moringa vegetative yield under Shalatien conditions by El-Boraie, F.M., R, M.M. El Shafay, and M.E. Elhagarey
3. Manufacturing of machine for crop cultivating under rainfed conditions by Meselhy A.A., H.M. Salem 2 and M. E. Elhagarey
1. Water use efficiency: Benefits flow from SA water innovation to irrigation schemes
2. Water Saving in Irrigated Agriculture in Egypt (Case Studies and Lessons Learned) by Er. Mohamed Hassan Amer, Er. Sayed Ahmed Abd El Hafez, and Mohamed Bakr Abd El Ghany
South African Water Research Commission (WRC)
Water Administration System (WAS)