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21 April 2025
ICID Events
11th International Micro Irrigation Conference, 27th - 29th April 2025, Baghdad, Iraq
76th IEC Meeting & 4th World Irrigation Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7-13 September 2025
77th IEC Meeting & 26th ICID Congress, Marseille, France, 12-18 October 2026
Theme: “Agriculture and climate change: stakes and levers for irrigation and drainage.”
78th IEC Meeting & 5th World Irrigation Forum (WIF5), at Guoce International Conference & Exhibition Center, Beijing, China, 2027
Other Events
2026 ASABE Global Symposium on sustainable Micro-irrigation (MI) advances in academia, research, industry and outreach - drop to boom: Land, water, energy, climate & food securities" 11-17 January, 2026 at Punta Borinquen Resort, Aguadilla - Puerto Rico - USA". More details appear at
Water, as the key natural resource, is fundamental to all economic, social and environmental development processes. Thus, efficient water resources management is essential for achieving poverty reduction through sustainable water management in irrigated agriculture. Proper irrigation systems can secure uninterrupted agriculture. Irrigation schemes play a key role in assuring timely and adequate agricultural water supply apart from other benefits. ICID has taken an initiative to document development of irrigation in the World through irrigation schemes. The register will fulfil a much-awaited global repository of information in the systematic irrigation and agricultural water management. the register is being implementing as a collaborative effort of National Committees of ICID and other interested entities dealing with irrigation and drainage. Please Visit
Invitation to Join ICID Membership
The Commission thrives on its worldwide network of experts from multifarious disciplines from 70 countries, who came together in the interest of global water management. All are members contribute to this higher cause by offering their voluntary services.
Currently, there are two different kinds of membership categories; National Committees and Direct Members. National Committees (NC) represent their countries mostly through their government departments responsible for irrigation, drainage or agricultural water management.
Companies, institutions, and individuals can also participate in ICID activities through their respective NCs or as Direct Members (DM). Professionals, individuals and officers of a government or of an institution or institutions - government and non-government; and companies, effectively representing interests within the scope of the objects of the Commission can participate in ICID activities through Direct Membership, to further the objects of the Commission in their countries or sovereign areas.
In the course of our activities and events conducted throughout the world, we associate with many different kinds of NGOs, national governments, researchers, corporate sectors, civil society organizations, and individuals. They are not necessarily members of ICID network but our associates and an important part of ICID fraternity. For more details, please visit: https://icid-ciid.org/view_page/2
Global soil pollution by toxic metals threatens agriculture and human health
17 April 2025
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that 90% of global soil resources may be at risk by 2050, owing to soil erosion, excessive usage of fertilizers and pesticides, and industrial pollution.
Restoring peatlands and rebuilding soil health in Arran UNESCO Global Geopark
16 April 2025
By restoring degraded peatland, one local farmer is helping protect biodiversity, improve soil health, and support the long-term sustainability in the hills of Arran UNESCO Global Geopark in the United Kingdom.
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Half the world relies on rice but climate change is making it more toxic
21 April 2025
A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health has warned that climate change is making rice, a staple food for half the world’s population, increasingly toxic by boosting its arsenic content.
Bleeding the planet dry? Climate change could unlock new threat to the world's blood supply
19 April 2025
Researchers from Red Cross Lifeblood and the University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) in Australia believe that blood-borne diseases as well as natural disasters are likely to disturb current patterns.
Internal variability effect doped by climate change drove the 2023 marine heat extreme in the North Atlantic
16 April 2025
Evidence is provided that 2023 should be interpreted as an extreme event in a warmer world because of superimposed internal variability on top of human forcing, which altogether, made the 2023 event all-time high due to extreme air-sea surface fluxes in the subtropics and eastern basin.
Global perceptions amid earth’s temperature breaching the 1.5 degrees tipping point
17 April 2025
As the world witnesses an unprecedented increase in global temperatures, passing 1.5˚C above pre-industrial levels for the first time in 2024, a new report by Ipsos reveals shifting perceptions and concerns about climate change worldwide.
Internal variability effect doped by climate change drove the 2023 marine heat extreme in the North Atlantic
16 April 2025
The 2023 event would have been impossible to occur without anthropogenically-driven climate change but at the current warmer background climate state, it is assessed as a decadal-type event when considering the full North Atlantic ocean and a centennial event in the subtropics and eastern basin.
Europe is world’s fastest warming continent with record temperatures in 2024
15 April 2025
This is the eighth annual report, released in April every year, and the second that has been published jointly with Copernicus, the European Union’s earth observation program.
Congo’s deadly rains predicted to occur every two years in a warming world
17 April 2025
Data from two weather stations in Kinshasa indicated that seven-day spells of rainfall have become about 9-19% more intense since 1960 – and rains could become heavier with fossil fuel warming, the researchers warned.
Deadly floods and storms affected more than 400,000 people in Europe in 2024
15 April 2025
The home-wrecking storms and floods that swept Europe last year affected 413,000 people, a report has found, as fossil fuel pollution forced the continent to suffer through its hottest year on record.
UN warns Moroccan locust outbreak poses major threat to northern Afghanistan farms
7 April 2025
The Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus) is considered one of the most destructive plant pests in Central and South Asia. According to the FAO, even a small swarm can consume enough crops to feed thousands of people in a single day.
Launch of Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Europe and Central Asia 2024 report
2 April 2025
The publication focuses on more than just water scarcity, it unpacks and quantifies water security, including aspects such as drinking water, sanitation, hygiene, water availability, water use efficiency, quality, and governance.
Ancient 6,000-Year-Old Irrigation Network Discovered in Mesopotamia
5 April 2025
The discovery provides rare insight into how ancient farmers, from the sixth century through the early first millennium BC, used the Euphrates River to irrigate their fields.
Why Brazil faces a water crisis
16 April 2025
Brazil has experienced three major water crises in recent history — in 2001, 2014-2015 and 2021. These years were marked by low rainfall leading to water rationing, failing crops and power outages, as the country generates around 60% of its electricity from hydropower.
World Water Day focuses on glacier preservation
21 March 2025
The largest loss of glacier mass on record occurred in the past three years, and in all 19 glacier regions, according to the new WMO State of the Global Climate 2024 report.
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025, Mountains and glaciers: water towers - The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025 – Mountains and glaciers: Water towers calls attention to the essential services and benefits mountain waters and alpine glaciers provide to societies, economies and the environment. With a focus on the technical and policy responses required to improve water management in mountains, the report covers critical issues such as water supply and sanitation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, food and energy security, industry, disaster risk reduction and ecosystem protection. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000393070
Water Insecurity in Central Asia: The 2021 Central Asia drought, the loss of the Aral Sea, the evaporation of glaciers in the Tian Shan mountains, and the alarming shrinking of the Caspian Sea are reminders of how natural and man-made disasters have destructive consequences on Central Asia’s strained water resources. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/central-asia-needs-regional-and-international-cooperation-to-bolster-water-security/
The Role of Digital and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation: A Systematic Mapping Protocol for South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate-smart agriculture is a key global policy priority due to its potential to support climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security through innovative practices and technologies. Recent advancements in digital agriculture technologies, such as precision agriculture and data analytics, are enabling its implementation. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/9c71917c-35db-4501-aaeb-6b0b58567b54
Emissions Gap Report 2024: The report looks at how much nations must promise to cut off greenhouse gases, and deliver, in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), due for submission in early 2025 ahead of COP30. Cuts of 42 per cent are needed by 2030 and 57 per cent by 2035 to get on track for 1.5°C. https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024
ICID Publication - Historical Water Sustainability, 2023
The latest data from WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas (August 2023) show that 25 countries housing one-quarter of the global population face extremely high water stress each year, regularly using up almost their entire available water supply. And at least 50% of the world’s population around 4 billion people live under highly water-stressed conditions for at least one month of the year. https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/HWS-ePublication.pdf
ICID Publication - Compendium World Heritage Irrigation Structures (2014-2022)
Since the dawn of human civilization water has been an enabler of societal development so much so that we started believing “Water is Life,” a common phrase in most languages. And, life is multi-dimensional involving not only a physical aspect but also economic, social, cultural, political, religious, and spiritual concepts.
https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/WHISCompendium-ePublication.pdf
ICID Publication - Water-Saving in Agriculture - A Roadmap to ICID Vision 2030
This publication is in a way to celebrate the 7-decade existence and relevance of ICID which started with a handful of members and has grown to represent more than 90% of the world irrigated area.
https://www.icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/Watsave_eBook2022_comp.pdf
Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review
Climate litigation represents a frontier solution to change the dynamics of the fight against climate change. This Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review shows that people are increasingly turning to the courts to combat the climate crisis. As of December 2022, there have been 2,180 climate-related cases filed in 65 jurisdictions, including international and regional courts, tribunals, quasi-judicial bodies, or other adjudicatory bodies, such as Special Procedures at the United Nations and arbitration tribunals. https://www.unep.org/resources/report/global-climate-litigation-report-2023-status-review
Climate Crossroads: Fiscal Policies in a Warming World - The report takes stock of mitigation policies across countries and presents the trilemma facing policymakers of balancing between achieving climate goals, debt sustainability, and political feasibility. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/FM/Issues/2023/10/10/fiscal-monitor-october-2023
Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report - The much-anticipated Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report is based on years of work by hundreds of scientists during the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment cycle which began in 2015. https://www.unep.org/resources/report/climate-change-2023-synthesis-report
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IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE - THE JOURNAL OF ICID
Articles available via complimentary online access @ https://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ird
ICID e-Bulletin is a weekly compilation of news items on ICID-related issues in the domain of Agriculture, Climate Change, Droughts, Floods, Food Security, Irrigation, and Water Resources Management that might be of interest to the ICID fraternity. The information contained in the BULLETIN does not purport to be exhaustive and is taken ''as it is'' from external sources and is freely available on the internet. No evaluation on the part of the ICID Central Office is being made in terms of the authenticity of the information that it may contain. ICID Central Office makes no guarantee, either express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information published. Your valuable feedback on the usefulness of the bulletin is solicited at <icid@icid.org.>.
[ Compiled and Edited by: Ms. Kalpana Adhikari, and Mr. Anurag Mamgain ]
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