18 August 2025
ICID Events
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
7th Eurasian Conference on “Risk-oriented Design and Operation of Infrastructure Systems: Sustainability Paradigm” (RİSK-2025) under the umbrella of ICID. The conference is scheduled to be held at Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, on 21-23 October 2025. https://www.eurasianrisk2025.com/
7th Conference of the Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering ANAFIDE-PASAE (Afro-AgEng), Oct 22, 2025 - Oct 24, 2025; Marriott Hotel, FES, Morocco
Theme - Water Management for a Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture in Africa
Email : anafide.ma@gmail.com; Website : https://www.7pasae.ma/en
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
Biochar from human waste could solve global fertiliser shortages, study finds
11 August 2025
Biochar is a form of charcoal made from organic matter treated at high heat, which is often used on farming soil as a fertiliser. The process also removes carbon from the atmosphere, making it a useful carbon sink.
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Climate crisis harming world heritage painted houses in Burkina Faso, say residents
15 August 2025
A world heritage site that was once a famous tourist destination is suffering from signs of disintegration, as climate change affects weather patterns.
Just how bad will climate change get? The only way to know is to fund basic research
13 August 2025
Low-level clouds reflect sunlight back to space, whereas high-level ones trap heat emitted from Earth’s surface. Most climate models predict that, overall, clouds will amplify the effects of humanity’s greenhouse-gas emissions through a decrease in cover by low-level clouds and an increase for high-level ones.
As climate change burdens grow, community mental health alarm bells ring
13 August 2025
The current global capacity to deal with a climate change-induced mental health emergency is inadequate, say experts who are calling for the prioritization of mental health support as an integral part of climate change interventions and mitigation.
Majority of Indians worried about global warming: Report
15 August 2025
The report, titled “Climate Change in the Indian Mind, Spring 2025,” finds that more than half people in India (53 per cent) say they know at least “something” about global warming. However, 27 per cent say they have “never heard of” global warming.
Battling the heat: Europe takes action to protect health in a warming world
14 August 2025
EU-funded researchers are developing strategies to protect people from rising temperatures, focusing on vulnerable groups and clearer climate-health communication.
Climate change-driven heat extremes are driving ‘staggering’ decline in tropical birds, study warns
13 August 2025
A first-of-its-kind analysis published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution has used observed data and models to identify the effects of climate change on bird populations around the world.
Flash floods kill at least 159 people in Pakistan after huge cloudburst
15 August 2025
Experts say these intense downpours have become more frequent in recent years, partly owing to the climate crisis, and that the damage caused has also increased because of unplanned development in mountain regions.
Glacial lake flood hits Juneau, Alaska, reflecting a growing global risk as mountain glaciers melt
13 August 2025
In the summers of 2023 and 2024, meltwater filled Suicide Basin, overflowed and escaped through tunnels in the ice, sending surges of water downstream that flooded neighborhoods along the river.
What is a cloudburst? The rare and intense weather event blamed for deadly India flash flood
6 August 2025
Meteorologists in India define a cloudburst as an event over a concentrated area of 30sqkm or less with rain falling at a rate of 100mm or more per hour. But there are complex processes that can go into these events.
What the Global South can teach the world about food security
14 August 2025
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) developed methods to transform acidic, nutrient-poor tropical soils found in the Cerrado into highly productive farmlands.
AI & Global Food Security: A Focus on Precision Agriculture river
13 August 2025
It is a data-driven practice of making timely, informed decisions at a micro scale to produce better outcomes for farm soils, plants, animals, and the farmer.
Back to the farm: Africa’s youth power up food security
11 August 2025
How WFP and the Mastercard Foundation support young Africans who are turning to agriculture, and making a successful living off the land.
Malaysia to host 4th World Irrigation Forum on climate, irrigation and sustainability
2 August 2025
The forum will bring together global leaders, technical experts and policymakers from 24 countries to address pressing issues in climate change impacts and water resource management in agriculture.
Global soil organic and inorganic carbon vulnerability in response to irrigation
28 July 2025
However, global patterns of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC) responses to irrigation remain insufficiently characterized. Here, we synthesized 223,593 observations to derive 2217 representative soil profile measurements and estimated the differential effects of irrigation on SOC and SIC.
Water crisis: a threat to regional and global food security
17 August 2025
With nearly 90% of freshwater allocated to farming, declining water availability has led to crop failures, a decrease in arable land, and increased dependence on imported food.
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025, Mountains and glaciers: Water towers
12 August 2025
This Report calls attention to the essential services and benefits mountain waters and alpine glaciers provide to societies, economies, and the environment.
Water crisis: a threat to regional and global food security
The world needs a new economics of water
11 August 2025
Over half the world’s food production now comes from areas experiencing declining freshwater supplies. Two-thirds of the global population faces water scarcity at least one month per year. More than 1,000 children under five die every day, on average, from water-related diseases.
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
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
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