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

Water scarcity has been showing an increasing trend the world over with the passage of time due to increased demand for water in its multiple uses. During the developmental process in Water Management, modernization of existing methods of irrigation has been leading to an increase in water use efficiency thereby leading to overall irrigation efficiency and water saving. More so, higher crop productivity has been obtained under the irrigated situations as compared to the rainfed situation, therefore global water scarcity and increased demand for food on account of increasing population can be met only by increasing the extent of irrigated areas and water use efficiency. Irrigation water from its source is conveyed up to a farm and subsequently applied to crops through various irrigation methods- surface (basins, furrows, and border strips), sprinkler, and micro irrigation. A vast amount of water goes to waste if it is not applied efficiently and uniformly all over the field. Improperly planned, designed, and laid/ installed irrigation system leads to losses such as deep percolation, runoff, evaporation, and wind drift affecting the performance of the system. Today a vast range of sprinkler and micro irrigation technology is available to fit all types of soil, crops, climates, and farm sizes. Modern micro irrigation systems can achieve as high as 95% application efficiency leading to significant water saving. Knowing the fact that the major share – about 70-90% of the fresh and groundwater withdrawals is being consumed by the agriculture sector, the multi-sectoral use of water requires more improvements in the existing types and methods of irrigation so that crops’ productivity can be achieved up-to the potential yield levels of germplasm. Thus, to sustain the overall agriculture sector and optimize the economic and environmental benefits in arid and semi-arid areas, the ‘relative’ sustainability of all the agricultural inputs needs to be developed over some time by addressing the following issues:

  1. Water Accounting (conjunctive availability/Supply of surface and groundwater, demand for and distribution of available irrigation water; identification of gaps); Irrigation Auditing covering irrigation scheduling as per cropping patterns highlighting gaps in demand/supply; and water use or irrigation efficiency; 
  2. Organizational and institutional arrangements covering policy issues in managing and developing irrigation water through developmental schemes/systems; 
  3. Off and On-Farm irrigation structures, water-saving devices, and water distribution system networks’ designs, installation, operation, and maintenance; 
  4. Technical monitoring of soil moisture for enhancing water infiltration and retention capacities of soils leading to water saving; 
  5. Trade-offs among on-farm and off-farm irrigation technologies, socio-economic and environmental benefits up to the optimum level of irrigation water use; 
  6. Use of new technologies for sustainability like automation, drones, artificial intelligence, etc. in the management of within/transboundary surface and groundwater to sustain the cost-effective use of irrigation water and overall efficiency improvement 
  7. Performance monitoring and evaluation of irrigation schemes/systems for making actionable recommendations on existing technical efficiency measures to the respective policymakers.

These issues will form the core mandate of the Working Group on Irrigation Water Management & Development (WG-IWM&D).

 


CONCEPT NOTE


As per the decision of the 75th IEC Meeting, WG-IWM&D was established with the amalgamation of the erstwhile workbodies - Working Group on Sustainable On-Farm Irrigation System Development (WG-SON-FARM), Working Group on Water Saving In Irrigated Areas  (WG-WATS), Working Group on Modernization and Revitalization of Irrigation Schemes  (WG-M&R), and Working Group on Irrigation Development and Management (WG-IDM).


 

Strategy Themes: Irrigation and Drainage
Mandate:

(a) Water Accounting (conjunctive availability/Supply of surface and groundwater, demand for and distribution of available irrigation water, identification of gaps); Irrigation Auditing covering irrigation scheduling as per cropping patterns highlighting gaps in demand/supply; and water use or irrigation efficiency;

(b) Organizational and institutional arrangements covering policy issues in managing and developing irrigation water through developmental schemes/systems;

(c) Off and On-Farm irrigation structures, water-saving devices, and water distribution system networks’ designs, installation, operation, and maintenance;

(d) Technical monitoring of soil moisture for enhancing water infiltration and retention capacities of soils leading to water saving;

(e) Trade-offs among on-farm and off-farm irrigation technologies, socio-economic and environmental benefits up to optimum level of irrigation water use;

(f) Use of new technologies for sustainability like automation, drones, artificial intelligence, etc. in management of within/transboundary surface and groundwater to sustain the cost-effective use of irrigation water and overall efficiency improvement

(g) Performance monitoring and evaluation of irrigation schemes/systems for making actionable recommendations on existing technical efficiency measures to the respective policymakers.


Established : 2024

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Membership
Sl. No. Name Email Country Position
1 Dr. A.K. Randev ra************* India Chair
2 Dr. Hwa-Lung Yu hl************* Chinese Taipei Committee Vice Chair
3 Mr. Suman Sijapati su************* Nepal Secretary
4 Dr. Ahmet Seren as************* Turkey Member
5 Dr. Akie MUKAI mu************* Japan Member
6 Eng. Ali Mohamed Ahmed Elhaj al************* Sudan Member
7 Dr. Ali Omran Ali al************* Iraq Member
8 Mr. Ali Volkan Seyfi vo************* Turkey Member
9 Dr. Amgad Elmahdi am************* Australia Member
10 Dr. Areeya Rittima ar************* Thailand Member
11 Dr. Ashfaq Ahmed Sheikh as************* Pakistan Member
12 Dr. Ashish Pandey - Direct Member as************* India Member
13 Ms. Bedriye Nur Dikenli Aytekin be************* Turkey Member
14 Dr. Bilal Alpaslan ba************* Turkey Member
15 Dr. Brian T. Wahlin bw************* USA Member
16 Dr. Caner Demir ca************* Turkey Member
17 Mr. Carl Walters ca************* Australia Member
18 Prof. Chang Eon Park ce************* South Korea Member
19 Dr. Chen, Ching-Tien ct************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
20 Dr. Chih Hung Tan ch************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
21 Dr. Deepak Khare - Direct Member kh************* India Member
22 Dr. Derya Coşkun de************* Turkey Member
23 Mr. Dilip Yewalekar ye************* India Member
24 Mr. Dinesh Bhatt di************* Nepal Member
25 Mr Egemen Gürsoy eg************* Turkey Member
26 Eng. El Sayed El Yamani Ali Sarkees y1************* Egypt Member
27 Dr. (Ms.) Eman Ragab Mohamed Nofal - Young Professional em************* Egypt Member
28 Ir. Felipe Dantas fe************* Australia Member
29 Dr. Feng-Wen Chen ch************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
30 Dr. Gamal Mohamed Elkassar ge************* Egypt Member
31 Dr. Graziano Ghinassi gr************* Italy Member
32 Dr. Guanghua Guan GG************* China Member
33 Eng. (Ms.) Hala Ramadan El-Sayed Ismail ha************* Egypt Member
34 Dr. Hossein Dehghanisanij de************* Iran Member
35 Mr. Ian William Makin ia************* United Kingdom Member
36 Mr. Ibrahim Burak Yeşiloğlu ib************* Turkey Member
37 Er. Isomiddin Akramov is************* Uzbekistan Member
38 Mr. Jan Potgieter ja************* South Africa Member
39 Dr. (Ms.) Jianxin Mu ji************* China Member
40 Dr. Katsuyuki SHIMIZU sh************* Japan Member
41 Dr. Khumbulani Dhavu dh************* South Africa Member
42 Prof. Kwang Sik Yoon ks************* South Korea Member
43 Prof. Lal Bahadur Roy - Direct Member lb************* India Member
44 Dr. Li Yalong ly************* China Member
45 Dr. (Ms.) Liu Jing - Young Professional ji************* China Member
46 Dr. Macdex Mutema mu************* South Africa Member
47 Dr. Man Singh ma************* India Member
48 Ir. Mat Hussin Bin Ghani ma************* Malaysia Member
49 Mr. Mehrzad Ehsani ir************* Iran Member
50 Prof. Michele Pernoila in************* Italy Member
51 Dr. MO Yan mo************* China Member
52 Mr. Mohamad Ramdani mr************* Indonesia Member
53 Mr. Mohamad Radzi Bin Abdul Talib ra************* Malaysia Member
54 Dr. Mohamed Elhagarey el************* Egypt Member
55 Dr. Mohamed H. Amer dr************* Egypt Member
56 Mr. Mohd Yazid bin Abdullah ir************* Malaysia Member
57 Dr. Mohsen Barahimi mb************* Iran Member
58 Dr. Mona Liza Delos Reyes mf************* Philippines Member
59 Dr. Muhammad Ashraf mu************* Pakistan Member
60 Engr. Muhammad Sani Bala ms************* Nigeria Member
61 Mr. Muhammad Adrie Azhari ad************* Indonesia Member
62 Dr. Narges Zohrabi na************* Iran Member
63 Dr. (Ms.) Neelam Patel ne************* India Member
64 Mr. Ömer Faruk Akbulut of************* Turkey Member
65 M. Omid Moridnejaad - Young Professional o.************* Iran Member
66 Ms. Özlem YILDIZ oz************* Turkey Member
67 Dr. P. Soman dr************* India Member
68 Dr. Peng-Jui Wang ar************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
69 Dr. Ping Li li************* China Member
70 Eng. Rafat Nael AbdulGhani Al-Intaki ra************* Iraq Member
71 Prof. Dr. Ray Shyan Wu ra************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
72 Engr. Reyne B. Ugay r_************* Philippines Member
73 Dr. Sanjay Madhukar Belsare be************* India Member
74 Dr. Shao Yiu Hsu sy************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
75 Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang wa************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
76 Dr. Shinji FUKUDA sh************* Japan Member
77 Mr. Siboniso Phillip Mkhaliphi ms************* South Africa Member
78 Prof. Sunil D. Gorantiwar sd************* India Member
79 Mr. Taku MORI t.************* Japan Member
80 Prof. Dr. Tarek Ahmed El-Samman ta************* Egypt Member
81 Mr. Tariq Altaf ta************* Pakistan Member
82 Dr. Tasuku Kato ta************* Japan Member
83 Dr. Teoh Chin Chuang cc************* Malaysia Member
84 Dr. Toshihiko KUNO to************* Japan Member
85 Dr. Usman Khalid Awan u.************* Pakistan Member
86 Mr. Usman-e- Ghani un************* Pakistan Member
87 Prof. Waleed Hassan M. Abou Elhassan Wa************* Egypt Member
88 Ts Ir Wan Noorul Hafilah Binti Wan Ariffin no************* Malaysia Member
89 Dr. Wu Jingwei ji************* China Member
90 Dr. Xiaoyan GUAN gu************* China Member
91 Mr. Yalçin  Dalgin ya************* Turkey Member
92 Dr. Yu Min Wang wa************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
93 Dr. Yujiang Xiong xi************* China Member
94 Dr. Yutthana Talaluxmana fe************* Thailand Member
95 Mrs. Zaineb Mohammed Akram zo************* Iraq Member
96 Dr. Zhao Weixia zh************* China Member
97 Dr. A. Hafied A. Gany ha************* Indonesia Observer
98 Mr. Abijit Joshi jo************* India Observer
99 Mr. Alan Kendall Clark ac************* United Kingdom Observer
100 Mr. M.S. Sudhakar su************* India Observer
101 Mr. Dery Indrawan De************* Indonesia Provisional Member
102 Dr. Alok Sikka (IWMI) a.************* India Permanent Observer
103 Dr. Petra Schmitter (World Bank) ps************* Myanmar Permanent Observer

In addition to the below representatives from FAO and IWMI are Permanent Observers.

CONCLUDED WORKBODIES/ TECHNICAL GROUPS

As per the decision of the 75th IEC Meeting, WG-IWM&D was established with the amalgamation of the erstwhile workbodies - Working Group on Sustainable On-Farm Irrigation System Development (WG-SON-FARM), Working Group on Water Saving In Irrigated Areas  (WG-WATS), Working Group on Modernization and Revitalization of Irrigation Schemes  (WG-M&R), and Working Group on Irrigation Development and Management (WG-IDM).

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