1 December 2025
ICID Events
ICID has started a “Technical Webinar Series” on the theme "Smart Irrigation Management" showcasing best practices and success stories in agricultural water management. The third webinar of this series is on the topic “Principles and Technology of Smart Irrigation
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is scheduled on December 18, 2025 at 14:30 hrs (IST). For more information please visit the link: https://icid-ciid.org/inner_page/273
77th IEC Meeting & 26th ICID Congress, Marseille, France, 12-18 October 2026
Theme: “Agriculture and climate change: stakes and levers for irrigation and drainage.” For more information please vivist the link: https://icidcongress2026.org/
78th IEC Meeting & 5th World Irrigation Forum (WIF5), at Guoce International Conference & Exhibition Center, Beijing, China, 2027
Other Events
XIX World Water Congress, on theme WATER IN A CHANGING WORLD: INNOVATION AND ADAPTATION, Marrakech, Morocco, 1 - 5, December 2025. https://worldwatercongress.com/
ASABE Global Symposium on Sustainable Microirrigation Advances: Drop to Boom, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, USA, 11-17, January 2026
Theme - Less is better than more to provide water & food security to people: Drop to boom
Traditional Water & Land Management Systems: 2025 ICOMOS ISC Water Scientific Symposium, Master Class Roundtable and Annual General Meeting
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
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How climate change is growing into one of the biggest threats to Spain’s ‘resilient’ economy
28 November 2025
However, researchers warn that Spain is among the European countries “most exposed” to climate change, with the country experiencing some of the most severe human and economic losses on the continent.
Report: Climate change to become world’s biggest driver of nature loss by 2050
26 November 2025
This is a new warning from the OECD, which has concluded that most national policy frameworks treat environmental issues including climate change and biodiversity loss in siloes. The worrying trend also permeates policymaking around pollution and the use of natural resources.
Climate change, Congo Basin deforestation threaten global cocoa supply: Study
22 November 2025
Researchers say the Congo Basin rainforest recycles up to 83% of its own rainfall, sending moisture westward to key cocoa-growing countries. As trees disappear, this natural "rain pump" weakens.
Rising Heat, Rising Risk: Proactive Resilience Is the Only Way Forward
28 December 2025
In Asia and the Pacific, Bangladesh was the worst-hit country, with about 33 million people affected by lower crop yields that destabilized food systems, along with extensive school closures and many cases of heatstroke and related diseases.
Decades-long droughts doomed one of the world's oldest civilizations
27 December 2025
A series of severe, decades-long droughts ushered the end of the Indus Valley Civilization, one of the world's oldest civilizations, a new study finds.
Iran’s World Heritage forests still burning amid severe drought
26 November 2025
The Hyrcanian forests have been ablaze since early November, with wildfires constantly reigniting and authorities struggling to prevent their spread. Recognized by UNESCO in 2019, the ancient forests are between 25 to 50 million years old and are home to more than 3,200 plant species.
Asia’s megacities face deadly heatwave risk: UN Report
26 November 2025
Overall, the frequency of days above critical heat thresholds was set to increase sharply, with South and Southwest Asia, parts of Southeast Asia and northern and eastern Australia trending toward chronic heat exposure.
Death toll rises to more than 250 in Southeast Asia following floods
28 December 2025
Heavy monsoon season rains paired with a tropical storm system inundated areas across Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, stranding residents on roof tops and cutting off entire communities.
Vietnam flooding death toll reaches 90 amid landslides and relentless rain
23 November 2025
Rainfall has exceeded 1,900mm (74.8in) in some parts of central Vietnam over the past week. The region is a major coffee production belt and home to popular beaches, but it is also prone to storms and floods.
Severe floods threaten global rice yields, study finds
14 November 2025
New research finds damage to rice crops has accelerated in recent decades due to rainstorms that increasingly submerge young plants for a week or more.
Food insecurity is on the rise: a look at the world’s ‘hunger hotspots’
26 November 2025
The report identifies sixteen regions around the world where the risk of severe food crisis is growing. This could lead to major humanitarian emergencies if urgent and coordinated action is not taken.
We Assumed Water Was Endless. Scientists Say That Era is Over
27 November 2025
As droughts continue to exacerbate the challenges faced by Canadian agriculture and access to clean water, a professor of geography at the University of Saskatchewan says the country is in a water crisis and the impact is significant.
South Asia’s groundwater management must put farmers first
21 November 2025
South Asia accounts for 50% of the groundwater pumped for irrigation globally. The practice has been critical to ensuring food security in the region, enabling farmers – predominantly smallholders – to increase food production.
Morocco’s water policies offer lessons to the world
28 November 2025
The country’s hosting of the 19th World Water Congress, scheduled from December 1 to 5 in Marrakech, is far more than an international event.
COP30: What the outcomes mean for water—and where action is needed next
26 November 2025
Water remains one of the most powerful levers for climate resilience and what happens next will determine whether the signals from COP30 become lasting results for communities and ecosystems.
Somalia is Innovating to Provide Communities with Clean, Safe Water Despite Climate Change Effects
24 November 2025
The Holhol Dam has been rehabilitated under the World Bank-supported Somalia Water for Rural Resilience Project (Barwaaqo) to support over 6,000 people and thousands of livestock.
Road Map to ICID Vision 2030- and Three-Year Rolling Plan
The water crisis, one of the most complex challenges of the 21st century, stems from a multitude of factors such as climate change, rapid population growth, inefficient consumption patterns, increasing demand, and mounting pressure on limited water resources. These issues have made a fundamental revision of water management and governance approaches inevitable. Global estimates indicate that by 2050, over two-thirds of the world's population will face water stress. https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/RoadMaptoVision20230-2025.pdf
Guidelines for Irrigation with Reclaimed Water
Using wastewater or poor-quality water for irrigation is one of the eight technical strategies proposed in the roadmap to 2030 ICID Vision “A water-secure world free of poverty and hunger through sustainable rural development”. Reclaimed water is considered a stable alternative water source for irrigation which is increasingly used worldwide.
https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/GuidelinesforReclaimedWater2025.pdf
Environmental Drainage
This book begins by discussing general environmental issues. It then delves into the pollutants found in drainage water, with a particular focus on soil and water salinity, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. The residues of chemical fertilizers and animal manure, particularly nitrogen and phosphorus, are major environmental pollutants.
https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/EnvironmentalDrainage2025.pdf
Guide to Innovated Irrigation and Drainage Management under the Changing Climate
Agriculture is a significant global user of freshwater resources, accounting for 70% of usage and contributing up to 30% of greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, it is both a contributor to and a victim of climate change. The Working Group on Climate is dedicated to addressing the mitigation and adaptation challenges faced by agricultural water management in the context of a changing climate. https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/ClimateChangeGuideBook2025.pdf
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
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
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