International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage Commission Interationale 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: Irrigation and Drainage
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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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 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 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 Dr. Dina Salesh di************* Egypt Member
21 Mr. Dinesh Bhatt di************* Nepal Member
22 Dr. Dong Bin do************* China Member
23 Mr. Duan Cheng me************* China Member
24 Eng. El Sayed El Yamani Ali Sarkees y1************* Egypt Member
25 Dr. (Ms.) Eman Ragab Mohamed Nofal - Young Professional em************* Egypt Member
26 Dr. Gamal Mohamed Elkassar ge************* Egypt Member
27 Dr. Hi Lu hi************* China Member
28 Eng. (Ms.) Hind Massoud Hamed Elneel hi************* Sudan Member
29 Dr. Hiroki Minakawa hi************* Japan Member
30 Ir. Hj. Mohd   Azmi bin Ismail az************* Malaysia Member
31 Dr. (Ms.) Hsiao Weng  Wang - Young Professional wh************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
32 Dr. Hwa-Lung Yu hl************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
33 Mr. Jan Potgieter ja************* South Africa Member
34 Dr. JANG Jeong Ryeol wg************* South Korea Member
35 Prof. Jiesheng Huang sd************* China Member
36 Dr. Kamran Emami kk************* Iran Member
37 Dr. Katsuyuki SHIMIZU sh************* Japan Member
38 Dr. Khumbulani Dhavu dh************* South Africa Member
39 Prof. Kwang Sik Yoon ks************* South Korea Member
40 Prof. L.B. Roy - Direct Member lb************* India Member
41 Dr. Li Yalong ly************* China Member
42 Ir. LIU Zhitong 53************* China Member
43 Dr. (Ms.) Liu Jing - Young Professional ji************* China Member
44 Dr. Macdex Mutema mu************* South Africa Member
45 Dr. Maheswor Shrestha ma************* Nepal Member
46 Mr. Marcel Marchand Ma************* Netherlands Member
47 Ir. Mat Hussin Bin Ghani ma************* Malaysia Member
48 Mr. Maurice Roos mr************* USA Member
49 Er. Mehmet Akif Kaygusuz me************* Turkey Member
50 Mr. Mehrzad Ehsani ir************* Iran Member
51 Dr. Ming-Che Hu mc************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
52 Mr. Mohamad Ramdani mr************* Indonesia Member
53 Mr. Mohamad Radzi Bin Abdul Talib ra************* Malaysia Member
54 Mr. Mohd Yazid bin Abdullah ir************* Malaysia Member
55 Dr. Mohsen Barahimi mb************* Iran Member
56 Dr. Mona Liza Delos Reyes mf************* Philippines Member
57 Engr. Muhammad Sani Bala ms************* Nigeria Member
58 Mr. Muhammad Adrie Azhari ad************* Indonesia Member
59 Engr. Muhammad Ejaz Tanveer en************* Pakistan Member
60 Er. Muhammet Bahattin Avcuoglu Ba************* Turkey Member
61 Dr. Narges Zohrabi na************* Iran Member
62 Dr. (Ms.) Neelam Patel ne************* India Member
63 Mr. Olli Matti Verta ol************* Finland Member
64 M. Omid Moridnejaad - Young Professional o.************* Iran Member
65 Ms. Özlem YILDIZ oz************* Turkey Member
66 Mr. R.K. Agrawal rk************* India Member
67 Engr. Reyne B. Ugay r_************* Philippines Member
68 Ms. Sahar Norouzi sa************* Iran Member
69 Dr. Sanjay Madhukar Belsare be************* India Member
70 Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang wa************* Chinese Taipei Committee Member
71 Dr. Shi Yuan - Young Professional 86************* China Member
72 Dr. Shinji FUKUDA sh************* Japan Member
73 Prof. Sunil D. Gorantiwar sd************* India Member
74 Engr. Syed Mahmood-ul-Hassan mu************* Pakistan Member
75 Prof. Dr. Tarek Ahmed El-Samman ta************* Egypt Member
76 Mr. Tariq Altaf ta************* Pakistan Member
77 Dr. Toshihiko KUNO to************* Japan Member
78 Er. Tóth Tamás to************* Hungary Member
79 Dr. Usman Khalid Awan u.************* Pakistan Member
80 Mr. Usman-e- Ghani un************* Pakistan Member
81 Dr. Vijay Labhsetwar vi************* India Member
82 Prof. Waleed Hassan M. Abou Elhassan Wa************* Egypt Member
83 Dr. Wu Jingwei ji************* China Member
84 Dr. Wu Di wu************* China Member
85 Mrs. Zaineb Mohammed Akram zo************* Iraq Member
86 Prof. Zhang Zhanyu zh************* China Member
87 Dr. Zhong-Kai Feng zh************* China Member
88 Ir. Zhu Haidong zh************* China Member
89 Mr. Arthon Suttigarn as************* Thailand Observer
90 Dr. Ir. Henk Ritzema he************* Netherlands Observer
91 Dr. Alok Sikka a.************* India Provisional Member
92 Dr. A. Hafied A. Gany ha************* Indonesia Permanent Observer
93 Mr. Alan Kendall Clark ac************* United Kingdom Permanent Observer
94 Dr. Daeou Eo da************* South Korea Permanent Observer
95 Mr. Harry Denecke me************* Indonesia Permanent Observer
96 Mr. Ian William Makin ia************* United Kingdom Permanent Observer
97 Dr. Jo Jin Hoon jo************* South Korea Permanent Observer
98 Dr. Petra Schmitter (World Bank) ps************* Myanmar Permanent Observer

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