| Message from Chairman |
International Workshop on Irrigation, Water Quality and Environmental Flows
Adelaide, Australia, June 2012
This workshop is being organised under the auspices of the International Commission for Irrigation and Drainage’s (ICID) Work Group on the Use of Poor Quality Water for Irrigation and the Working Group on Environment. It will be held in conjunction with ICID’s 63rd International Executive Council Meeting.
General scoping & Objectives
The workshop aims to addressing both input and output waters in irrigation, as key interfaces between irrigation systems and the environment. A first sub-theme concerns the quality of input water in irrigation, with a special focus on poor quality water, and related issues. A second sub-theme refers to drainage waters, as return flow and the potential contribution to Environmental Flow Requirements, EFR. This Workshop will bring together experts from all over the world to discuss their experience with using different types of poor quality water and how these should be managed to minimise environmental impacts and promote sustainable practices. The state-of-the-art, and experiences on Requirement for Environmental Flow assessment, interactions with irrigation, impacts of REF implementation will be discussed. A multidisciplinary perspective with many dimensions of the interactions between irrigation, REF and other uses will be debated.
[ More details & Call for Papers ] |
62nd International Executive Council Meeting, Tehran, Iran [Previous Agendas]
62nd International Executive Council Meeting, Tehran, Iran [Previous Minutes]
2011
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The researches and application on brackish water for irrigation in China, Dr. Gao Zhanyi
Cemagref – Sciences, eaux & territories
2008
Advancing Human Development and MDG’s Role Water and Agriculture (ICID – FAO – Israeli Committee to ICID 16th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development, United Nations, New York, May 2008
2006
The Use of Brackish Water in Agriculture and Aquaculture (Dr. Samia El Guindy, Director of the APP Central Office, Cairo, 2006)
Environmental Impact of Misusing Pesticides (Dr. Magdy Salah El-Deen and Dr. Samia El Guindy, Advisory Panel Project/ APP, Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt)
The International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) was established on 24 June, 1950 as a Scientific, Technical and Voluntary Not-for-profit Non-Governmental International Organization (NGO) with headquarters in New Delhi, India.
The Commission is dedicated to enhancing the worldwide supply of food and fibre for all people by improving water and land management and the productivity of irrigated and drained lands through appropriate management of water, environment and application of irrigation, drainage and flood management techniques. [For more information contact http://www.icid.org]
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To promote a safe and good management of poor quality water for irrigation, to minimize the negative impact on human health and the environment , to promote the multiple use of poor quality water, and to give consideration to the Institutional and legislation aspects with regard to the use of poor quality waters.
MISSION STATEMENT
The Team supports work to promote the safe use of poor quality waters for irrigation especially in water stressed regions. The Team aims to develop guidelines, methodologies, techniques and models for integrated management of such waters. In doing so, the Team focuses primarily on preventing land and water resources degradation, as well as on protecting human health, the environment and ecological systems.
Established : 1995
Completion of the Mandate : 2013
Members: (1) VPH Dr. Samia El- Guindy, Chair, 2011 (Egypt, 1999); (2) Dr. Anna Tedeshi, Secretary (Italy, 2011); (3) VP Dr. R. Ragab (UK, 1997); (4) VPH Dr. Karim Shiati (Iran, 1997); (5) Dr. Jan Salek (Czech Rep., 1998); (6) Mr. Jose Manuel Arangao Maldonado (Mexico, 1998); (7) Dr. Wen-Lin Chang (Chinese Taipei, 1998); (8) President Dr. Gao Zhanyi (China, 1998); (9) Dr. Ramzan Chowdhry (Pakistan, 2000); (10) Mr. Martin Roche (USA, 2002); (11) Ms. Esther O. Ogunniyi (Nigeria, 2002); (12) Mr. Bernard Vincent (France, 2003); (13) Dr. Jorge Tarchitzky (Israel, 2004); (14) Dr. Leon van Rensburg (South Africa, 2010); (15) Dr. Takaroni Nagano (Japan, 2011); (16) Dr. Magdy Abdel Hamid (Egypt, 2011); and (18) Secretary General, ICID.
Permanent observer: (i) FAO Representative; and (ii) ICBA Representative (UAE).
Report : PANCID Sub-Committee on Use of Poor Quality Water for Irrigation |
