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

The coastal zone is the intersection of land and sea, with the characteristics of daily sea level fluctuations due to ocean tides, as well as complex hydro-meteorological conditions of oceanic and continental climate interactions. Coastal zone is also the tail end of rivers and drainages, where confluent land water is discharged into the sea. On the sea side of the coastal zone, there are abundant marine fisheries and very strong and powerful of wind energy, tidal energy, and wave energy, which might be available for development in marine resources, while on the land side, there are vast agricultural and food production areas, increasingly urban and industrial areas, nature and recreational areas. These areas are also potential for developing solar energy, water energy, wind energy and biomass energy. Besides, the estuary areas often consist of various ecosystems, supporting biodiversity. Based on multiple considerations of food production, agricultural irrigation water, drainage and flood protection, proper planning and development of clean green energy not only meets the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but also contributes to net zero carbon emissions by 2050 (2050 Net- Zero Emissions), the national commitment by many countries.

However, these coastal environments and resources have diverse and complex disaster risk issues, such as heavy rainfall and floods in lowlands, over-pumping of groundwater leads to land subsidence and easy flooding, coastal erosion and land loss, seawalls and coastal facility damage, sea level rise under climate change, earthquake and tsunami invasion and destruction of land areas, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to clearly understand these potential disasters with more sophisticated knowledge and technology to upgrade the coastal environment master plan, introduce appropriate clean green energy, so as to ensure responsible newly construction projects operation and maintenance, as well as improvement of the existing ageing capacity of irrigation, drainage and flood protection facilities.


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The Working Group on Sustainable Coastal Environment Regeneration (WG-SCER) has been established in 2024 by integrating the erstwhile workbodies - Working Group on Sustainable Development of Tidal Areas (WG-SDTA), Working Group on Adaptive Flood Management (WG-AFM), Working Group on Irrigation Development and Management (WG-IDM), and Working Group on Modernization and Revitalization of Irrigation Schemes (WG-M&R)


 

Strategy Themes: Natural Resources
Mandate:
  1. Investigate and review the capabilities of irrigation, drainage, and flood protection facilities in under multiple land use with a focus on the agricultural areas on the landside of coastal areas and coastal topography erosion or accumulation, etc.;
  2. Inventory and analyze irrigation water sources, water quantity, water quality, grain farming types and productivity in coastal agricultural areas to understand water supply demand issues;
  3. Review and analyze the long-term record data and characteristics of coastal tide levels, and plan regular and accurate surveys of land surface elevations in coastal areas to clarify the proportion of coastal lowland flooding disasters caused by land subsidence and rising sea levels;
  4. Comprehensively review the situation of coastal land use and flooding disasters, and formulate readjustment strategies with a focus on the rural areas to improve irrigation, drainage and flood protection infrastructure, designate flood detention areas, and establish adaptive flood management systems;
  5. Check or upgrade the sensors, data acquisition and transmission systems of various relevant coastal meteorological, surface water and groundwater observation systems, oceanographic monitoring systems, etc. to maintain normal functions of automation and digitalization, as well as the distribution of representative data devices;
  6. Analyze and evaluate the feasibility of developing ocean energy, wind energy, solar energy, small or micro hydropower and biomass energy to pursue autonomous utilization of green energy in coastal rural areas;
  7. Introduce water industry technologies development, such as, the use of green energy for wastewater reuse and seawater desalination, sophisticated agricultural water-saving management and equipment components, leakage detection of water supply facilities, intelligent water management software and hardware technology, etc., to effectively manage irrigation water regulation and dispatch and energy utilization, control over-pumping of groundwater, prevent land subsidence and reduce flooding disasters.

 

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Established : 2024

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Dr. Ruey Chy Kao, Chinese Taipei Committee

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Membership
Sl. No. Name Email Country Position
1 Dr. Ruey Chy Kao si************* Chinese Taipei Committee Chair
2 Dato’ Ir. Hj. Nor Hisham Bin Mohd Ghazali - Vice President Hon. hi************* Malaysia Vice Chair
3 Mr. Paavan Kumar Reddy Gollapalli pa************* India Secretary
4 Dr. Abdelilah Taky ta************* Morocco Member
5 Mr. Ahmad Bin Dakur ah************* Malaysia Member
6 Dr. Ahmet Seren as************* Turkey Member
7 Dr. Akie MUKAI mu************* Japan Member
8 Eng. Ali Mohamed Ahmed Elhaj al************* Sudan Member
9 Dr. Ali Omran Ali al************* Iraq Member
10 Mr. Ali Volkan Seyfi vo************* Turkey Member
11 Mr. Alok Paul Kalsi ws************* India Member
12 Dr. Amgad Elmahdi am************* Australia Member
13 Ms. Bedriye Nur Dikenli Aytekin be************* Turkey Member
14 Dr. Bilal Alpaslan ba************* Turkey Member
15 Dr. Brian T. Wahlin - Vice President Hon. bw************* USA Member
16 Prof. Budi Santoso Wignyosukarto bu************* Indonesia Member
17 Prof. (Ms.) Chen Jing ch************* China Member
18 Dr. Chih Hung Tan ch************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
19 Dr. Chung Feng Ding cf************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
20 Mr. Dhamson Polus Masundang me************* Malaysia Member
21 Dr. Dina Salesh di************* Egypt Member
22 Mr. Dinesh Bhatt di************* Nepal Member
23 Dr. Dong Bin do************* China Member
24 Mr. Duan Cheng me************* China Member
25 Eng. El Sayed El Yamani Ali Sarkees y1************* Egypt Member
26 Dr. (Ms.) Eman Ragab Mohamed Nofal - Young Professional em************* Egypt Member
27 Dr. Gamal Mohamed Elkassar ge************* Egypt Member
28 Dr. Hi Lu hi************* China Member
29 Eng. (Ms.) Hind Massoud Hamed Elneel hi************* Sudan Member
30 Dr. Hiroki Minakawa hi************* Japan Member
31 Ir. Hj. Mohd   Azmi bin Ismail az************* Malaysia Member
32 Dr. (Ms.) Hsiao Weng  Wang - Young Professional wh************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
33 Dr. Hwa-Lung Yu hl************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
34 Mr. Jan Potgieter ja************* South Africa Member
35 Dr. JANG Jeong Ryeol wg************* South Korea Member
36 Prof. Jiesheng Huang sd************* China Member
37 Dr. Kamran Emami - Vice President Hon. kk************* Iran Member
38 Dr. Katsuyuki SHIMIZU sh************* Japan Member
39 Dr. Khumbulani Dhavu dh************* South Africa Member
40 Prof. Kwang Sik Yoon ks************* South Korea Member
41 Prof. Lal Bahadur Roy - Direct Member lb************* India Member
42 Dr. Li Yalong ly************* China Member
43 Ir. LIU Zhitong 53************* China Member
44 Dr. (Ms.) Liu Jing - Young Professional ji************* China Member
45 Dr. (Eng.) M. Ejaz Tanveer en************* Pakistan Member
46 Dr. Macdex Mutema mu************* South Africa Member
47 Dr. Maheswor Shrestha ma************* Nepal Member
48 Mr. Marcel Marchand Ma************* Netherlands Member
49 Ir. Mat Hussin Bin Ghani ma************* Malaysia Member
50 Mr. Maurice Roos mr************* USA Member
51 Er. Mehmet Akif Kaygusuz me************* Turkey Member
52 Mr. Mehrzad Ehsani ir************* Iran Member
53 Dr. Ming-Che Hu mc************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
54 Mr. Mohamad Ramdani mr************* Indonesia Member
55 Mr. Mohamad Radzi Bin Abdul Talib ra************* Malaysia 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 Engr. Muhammad Sani Bala ms************* Nigeria Member
60 Mr. Muhammad Adrie Azhari ad************* Indonesia Member
61 Er. Muhammet Bahattin Avcuoglu Ba************* Turkey Member
62 Dr. Narges Zohrabi na************* Iran Member
63 Dr. (Ms.) Neelam Patel ne************* India Member
64 Mr. Olli Matti Verta Ol************* Finland Member
65 M. Omid Moridnejaad - Young Professional o.************* Iran Member
66 Ms. Özlem YILDIZ oz************* Turkey Member
67 Mr. Rajini Kant Agarwal (DM), WAPCOS Ltd. me************* India Member
68 Engr. Reyne B. Ugay r_************* Philippines Member
69 Ms. Sahar Norouzi sa************* Iran Member
70 Dr. Sanidhya Nika Purnomo me************* Indonesia Member
71 Dr. Sanit Wongsa me************* Thailand Member
72 Dr. Sanjay Madhukar Belsare be************* India Member
73 Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang wa************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
74 Dr. Shi Yuan - Young Professional 86************* China Member
75 Dr. Shinji FUKUDA sh************* Japan Member
76 Prof. Sunil D. Gorantiwar sd************* India Member
77 Dr. Surat Thanusin me************* Thailand Member
78 Engr. Syed Mahmood-ul-Hassan mu************* Pakistan Member
79 Prof. Dr. Tarek Ahmed El-Samman ta************* Egypt Member
80 Mr. Tariq Altaf ta************* Pakistan Member
81 Dr. Toshihiko KUNO to************* Japan Member
82 Er. Tóth Tamás to************* Hungary Member
83 Dr. Usman Khalid Awan u.************* Pakistan Member
84 Mr. Usman-e- Ghani un************* Pakistan Member
85 Dr. Vijay Labhsetwar vi************* India Member
86 Prof. Waleed Hassan M. Abou Elhassan wa************* Egypt Member
87 Dr. Wu Jingwei ji************* China Member
88 Dr. Wu Di wu************* China Member
89 Mrs. Zaineb Mohammed Akram zo************* Iraq Member
90 Prof. Zhang Zhanyu zh************* China Member
91 Dr. Zhong-Kai Feng zh************* China Member
92 Ir. Zhu Haidong zh************* China Member
93 Mr. Arthon Suttigarn as************* Thailand Observer
94 Dr. Ir. Henk Ritzema he************* Netherlands Observer
95 Mr. Sudarto Sudarto me************* Indonesia Provisional Member
96 Dr. A. Hafied A. Gany - Vice President Hon. ha************* Indonesia Permanent Observer
97 Mr. Alan Kendall Clark ac************* United Kingdom Permanent Observer
98 Dr. Alok Sikka (IWMI) a.************* India Permanent Observer
99 Dr. Daeou Eo da************* South Korea Permanent Observer
100 Mr. Harry Denecke me************* Indonesia Permanent Observer
101 Mr. Ian William Makin - Vice President Hon. ia************* United Kingdom Permanent Observer
102 Dr. Jo Jin Hoon jo************* South Korea Permanent Observer
103 Dr. Petra Schmitter (World Bank) ps************* Myanmar Permanent Observer
104 Mr. Robiyanto Hendro Susanto me************* Indonesia Permanent Observer

In addition to the above membership representatives from FAO

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