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

United Nations (UN) set up 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the 2023 agenda. The irrigation and drainage theme is closely related to SDG 2 “achieve zero hunger worldwide” and SDG 15 “sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss”. The use of non-conventional water resources within a sustainable environment helps produce more food to realize a water secure world free of poverty and hunger is a goal for the 2030 ICID mission as well.

With rapid economic and population growth, scarcity of fresh water is increasingly becoming a global problem. Global agriculture is the biggest freshwater consumer nearly accounting for 70% of the supply. Smart use of non-conventional waters for irrigation could lessen the burden on fresh water and at the same time minimize associated water and land degradation. Non-conventional waters consist of reclaimed water, brackish/saline groundwater, raw domestic wastewater, agricultural drainage water, mining water, harvested rainwater, storm water, etc. Along with proper usage of the non-conventional waters, it is important to reduce contamination and prevent human health risk therefore, a set of irrigation and drainage techniques, policies, and strategies must be considered in the process of planning, designing, operation, and management.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a major report in 2022 Climate Change 2022: on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability looking mainly at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. Global warming, reaching 1.5°C in the near term (2021-2040), would cause unavoidable increases in multiple climate hazards and present multiple risks to ecosystems and humans. Increased frequency, severity, and duration of extreme events such as droughts will lead to yield reduction, groundwater depletion, soil salinity/contamination, soil compaction, organic matter/microbial habitat loss, weed infestation, and desertification. Proper and targeted use of non-conventional waters will prevent those adverse impacts otherwise caused by acute and prolonged droughts.

On the other hand, intensive irrigations are seen to be a cause of degradation of environmental degradation. The three pillars of the “Green Revolution”, - high-yielding varieties, chemical inputs like fertilizer and pesticides, and irrigation–have had a definite positive outcome in terms of increased food production, which obviated hunger in many parts of the world but also negatively impacted land and biodiversity and the aquatic ecosystems.

ICID has long been aware of risks associated with non-conventional water resources as a supplemental source of irrigation water and addressing the issues from time to time. The newly formed Working Group on Non-conventional Water Resources and Environment Protection (WG-NWREP) is tasked to provide guidance on the environment-friendly use of non-conventional water resources including its effects on climate and human health.


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Strategy Themes: Irrigation and Drainage
Mandate:
  1. Promote sustainable and environment-friendly use of non-conventional water for irrigation
  2. Knowledge share of up-to-date developments, methods, and approaches on NWREP;
  3. Provide guidance and training to policymakers, planners, designers, managers, and young professionals in NWREP;
  4. Produce technical manuals, guidelines, or standards with respect to NWREP;
  5. Organize international workshops, seminars, and meetings on the NWREP topics;
  6. Produce documents on successful case studies in maximizing positive and minimizing adverse effects of nonconventional irrigation and drainage systems from farm to basin.

Established : 2024

Chairman Message

Activities

In addition to the below membership representatives from ICBA are Permanent Member.

Announcement

The Working Group on Non-Conventional Water Resources and Environment Protection (WG-NWREP) was established by integrating the erstwhile workbodies - Working Group on Environment (WG-ENV) and Working Group on Use of Non-Conventional Water Resources for Irrigation (WG-NCWRI).

Membership
Sl. No. Name Email Country Position
1 Prof. Dr. Wenyong Wu we************* China Chair
2 Prof. Tapas Kumar Biswas ta************* Australia Vice Chair
3 Dr. (Ms.) Anna Tadeschi an************* Italy Member
4 Dr. Ashish Pandey - Direct Member as************* India Member
5 Dr. Aynur Fayrap ay************* Turkey Member
6 Dr. Bilge Omar bi************* Turkey Member
7 Mr. Carl Walters ca************* Australia Member
8 Dr. Chihhao Fan ch************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
9 Prof. Feng Qian xi************* China Member
10 Dr. Feng-Wen Chen ch************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
11 Dr. Fuqiang Tian ti************* China Member
12 Dr. Giulio Castelli gi************* Italy Member
13 Dr. Hao-Che Ho ha************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
14 Ir. Hj. Mohd   Azmi bin Ismail az************* Malaysia Member
15 Prof. (Ms.) HONG Eun Mi eu************* South Korea Member
16 Dr. Javaid Hussain ja************* Pakistan Member
17 Ms. Jigyasha Rai Yangkhurung ji************* Nepal Member
18 Dr. Karim Shiati ka************* Iran Member
19 Mr. Melih Kayal me************* Turkey Member
20 Dr. Michael van der Laan va************* South Africa Member
21 Engr. Mohamed Ouhssain ou************* Morocco Member
22 Dr. Mohamed Shaban M. Abu Salama sa************* Egypt Member
23 Dr. Muhammad Munir Ahmad mu************* Pakistan Member
24 Prof. Qi Xuebin qx************* China Member
25 Prof. Dr. Ragab Ragab ra************* United Kingdom Member
26 Mr. Ragip Balatli ra************* Turkey Member
27 Dr. Ratan Chand Jain ra************* India Member
28 Dr. (Ms.) Seija Virtanen se************* Finland Member
29 Ms. Senem Yildirim se************* Turkey Member
30 Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang wa************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
31 Dr. Shu Yuan Pan sy************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
32 Mr. shweta tyagi sh************* India Member
33 Prof. Sunil D. Gorantiwar sd************* India Member
34 Dr. Tasuku Kato ta************* Japan Member
35 Dr. Usman Khalid Awan u.************* Pakistan Member
36 Dr. Yan MO mo************* China Member
37 Dr. Yang Shihong - Young Professional ys************* China Member
38 Dr. Yury Anatolyevich Mozhaiskii ma************* Russia Member
39 Prof. Dr. Yutaka MATSUNO ma************* Japan Member
40 Dr. Zha Yuanyuan - Young Professional zh************* China Member
41 Dr. Li-Chi Chiang lc************* Chinese Taipei Committee Provisional Member
42 Dr. Ping Li li************* China Provisional Member
43 Dr. Sasha Koo-Oshima (FAO) Sa************* Italy Permanent Observer

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AGENDA/ MINUTES/ REPORTS/ PUBLICATIONS

 

| AGENDA (Previous) | MINUTES (Previous) |


Reports / Articles / Documents

  1. Report on Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Irrigation and Drainage Systems with Life Cycle Analysis
  2. Salinisation Impacts in Life Cycle Assessment: a Review of Challenges and Options Towards their Consistent Integration by Sandra Payen, Claudine Basset-Mens, Montserrat Núñez, Stéphane Follain, Olivier Grünberger, Serge Marlet, Sylvain Perret, and Philippe Roux - Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
  3. Eco-efficiency of Cotton-cropping Systems in Pakistan: an Integrated Approach of Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis by Asmat Ulla, Sylvain R. Perret, Shabbir H. Gheewala, and Peeyush Soni - Journal of Cleaner Production 2015
  4. Evaluation of groundwater-based irrigation systems using a water–energy–food nexus approach: a case study from Southeast Nepal ( Sangam Shrestha, Saroj Adhikari, Mukand S. Babel, Sylvain R. Perret and Shobhakar Dhakal)
  5. LCA of Local and Imported Tomato: An Energy and Water Trade-Off (Sandra Payen, Claudine Basset-Mens and Sylvain Perret
  6. Analysis of the implementation of Environmental Flows in the wider context of the River Basin Management Plans
  7. Modernisation of an Irrigation Business (Ian Moorhouse)
  8. Life cycle assessment of irrigation systems: Assessing regional and global potential environmental impacts (Sylvain R. Perret)

Long-Term Groundwater Quality and Saline Intrusion Assessment in an Irrigated Environment: A Case Study of the Aquifer under the LBDC Irrigation System
Muhammad Basharat and Ata-Ur-Rehman Tariq


 

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CONCLUDED WORKBODIES/ TECHNICAL GROUPS

The Working Group on Non-Conventional Water Resources and Environment Protection (WG-NWREP) was established by integrating the erstwhile workbodies - Working Group on Environment (WG-ENV) and Working Group on Use of Non-Conventional Water Resources for Irrigation (WG-NCWRI).


Work Team on Environmental Impacts of Reclamation Projects (1986) Renamed Working Group on Environmental Impacts of Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control Projects (WG-ENV) (1986).  WG on Environmental Impacts of Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control Projects (1986-2008) changed its name WG on Environment (2008-2015) and *re-constituted WG on Environment in 2015 with a new mandate.

WG-ENV [2008-2015] - Closure Report


 

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