International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage Commission Interationale 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:
  1. Identifying, planning, and formulating approaches, methodologies, technologies, and field practices for sustainable development and management of off and on-farm irrigation structures and systems;
  2. Balancing the trade-offs between socio-economic benefits and maintaining sustainable environments;
  3. Interaction between the adoption of top-end on-farm irrigation technologies and the resulting required operation and maintenance as well as institutional arrangements;
  4. Guidelines for the design of on-farm irrigation structures and automation of field water distribution networks;
  5. Use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) viz. mobile, internet, GIS, and remote sensing, for efficient on-farm water management.

Established : 2024

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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 Prof. (Ms.) Chen Jing ch************* China Member
20 Dr. Chen, Ching-Tien ct************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
21 Dr. Chih Hung Tan ch************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
22 Dr. Deepak Khare - Direct Member kh************* India Member
23 Dr. Derya Coşkun de************* Turkey Member
24 Mr. Dilip Yewalekar ye************* India Member
25 Mr. Dinesh Bhatt di************* Nepal Member
26 Dr. Dong Bin do************* China Member
27 Mr Egemen Gürsoy eg************* Turkey Member
28 Eng. El Sayed El Yamani Ali Sarkees y1************* Egypt Member
29 Dr. (Ms.) Eman Ragab Mohamed Nofal - Young Professional em************* Egypt Member
30 Ir. Felipe Dantas fe************* Australia Member
31 Dr. Feng-Wen Chen ch************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
32 Dr. Gamal Mohamed Elkassar ge************* Egypt Member
33 Dr. Graziano Ghinassi gr************* Italy Member
34 Prof. Gu Tao 13************* China Member
35 Dr. Guanghua Guan GG************* China Member
36 Eng. (Ms.) Hala Ramadan El-Sayed Ismail ha************* Egypt Member
37 Dr. Hossein Dehghanisanij de************* Iran Member
38 Mr. Ian William Makin ia************* United Kingdom Member
39 Mr. Ibrahim Burak Yeşiloğlu ib************* Turkey Member
40 Er. Isomiddin Akramov is************* Uzbekistan Member
41 Mr. Jan Potgieter ja************* South Africa Member
42 Ms. Jianxin Mu ji************* China Member
43 Prof. Jiesheng Huang sd************* China Member
44 Dr. Katsuyuki SHIMIZU sh************* Japan Member
45 Dr. Khumbulani Dhavu dh************* South Africa Member
46 Prof. Kwang Sik Yoon ks************* South Korea Member
47 Prof. L.B. Roy - Direct Member lb************* India Member
48 Dr. Li Yalong ly************* China Member
49 Dr. (Ms.) Liu Jing - Young Professional ji************* China Member
50 Prof. Luo Yufeng yf************* China Member
51 Dr. Macdex Mutema mu************* South Africa Member
52 Dr. Man Singh ma************* India Member
53 Ir. Mat Hussin Bin Ghani ma************* Malaysia Member
54 Mr. Mehrzad Ehsani ir************* Iran Member
55 Prof. Michele Pernoila in************* Italy Member
56 Mr. Mohamad Ramdani mr************* Indonesia Member
57 Mr. Mohamad Radzi Bin Abdul Talib ra************* Malaysia Member
58 Dr. Mohamed Elhagarey el************* Egypt Member
59 Dr. Mohamed H. Amer dr************* Egypt Member
60 Mr. Mohd Yazid bin Abdullah ir************* Malaysia Member
61 Dr. Mohsen Barahimi mb************* Iran Member
62 Dr. Mona Liza Delos Reyes mf************* Philippines Member
63 Dr. Muhammad Ashraf mu************* Pakistan Member
64 Engr. Muhammad Sani Bala ms************* Nigeria Member
65 Mr. Muhammad Adrie Azhari ad************* Indonesia Member
66 Dr. Narges Zohrabi na************* Iran Member
67 Dr. (Ms.) Neelam Patel ne************* India Member
68 Mr. Ömer Faruk Akbulut of************* Turkey Member
69 M. Omid Moridnejaad - Young Professional o.************* Iran Member
70 Ms. Özlem YILDIZ oz************* Turkey Member
71 Dr. P. Soman dr************* India Member
72 Dr. Peng-Jui Wang ar************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
73 Dr. Ping Li li************* China Member
74 Prof. Qi Xuebin qx************* China Member
75 Eng. Rafat Nael AbdulGhani Al-Intaki ra************* Iraq Member
76 Prof. Dr. Ray Shyan Wu ra************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
77 Engr. Reyne B. Ugay r_************* Philippines Member
78 Dr. Sanjay Madhukar Belsare be************* India Member
79 Dr. Shao Yiu Hsu sy************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
80 Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang wa************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
81 Dr. Shi Yuan - Young Professional 86************* China Member
82 Dr. Shinji FUKUDA sh************* Japan Member
83 Mr. Siboniso Phillip Mkhaliphi ms************* South Africa Member
84 Prof. Sunil D. Gorantiwar sd************* India Member
85 Mr. Taku MORI t.************* Japan Member
86 Prof. Dr. Tarek Ahmed El-Samman ta************* Egypt Member
87 Mr. Tariq Altaf ta************* Pakistan Member
88 Dr. Tasuku Kato ta************* Japan Member
89 Dr. Teoh Chin Chuang cc************* Malaysia Member
90 Dr. Toshihiko KUNO to************* Japan Member
91 Dr. Usman Khalid Awan u.************* Pakistan Member
92 Mr. Usman-e- Ghani un************* Pakistan Member
93 Dr. Waleed Hassan M. Abou El Hassan Wa************* Egypt Member
94 Ts Ir Wan Noorul Hafilah Binti Wan Ariffin no************* Malaysia Member
95 Dr. Wu Di wu************* China Member
96 Dr. Wu Jingwei ji************* China Member
97 Dr. Xiaoyan GUAN gu************* China Member
98 Mr. Yalçin  Dalgin ya************* Turkey Member
99 Dr. Yu Min Wang wa************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
100 Dr. Yujiang Xiong xi************* China Member
101 Dr. Yutthana Talaluxmana fe************* Thailand Member
102 Mrs. Zaineb Mohammed Akram zo************* Iraq Member
103 Dr. A. Hafied A. Gany ha************* Indonesia Observer
104 Mr. Abijit Joshi jo************* India Observer
105 Mr. Alan Kendall Clark ac************* United Kingdom Observer
106 Mr. M.S. Sudhakar su************* India Observer
107 Dr. Alok Sikka a.************* India Permanent Observer
108 Dr. Petra Schmitter (World Bank) ps************* Myanmar Permanent Observer

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

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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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