22 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 fourth webinar of this series is on the topic “Application of Remote Sensing in Crop Water Management and Water Resource Monitoring
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is scheduled on January 20, 2026 at 14:30 hrs (IST). For more information please visit the link: https://icid-ciid.org/inner_page/275 or
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
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
6th Baghdad International Water Conference on Theme "Climate Change and Water Security: Present Challenges and Future Visions", Scheduled from 11-13 April, 2026, Baghdad, Iraq.
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 threatens reproductive health in Asia
19 December 2025
In Asia’s most climate-vulnerable countries, global warming is also threatening people’s sexual and reproductive health, studies show, with fires, floods and pollution all posing extra hazards to the most vulnerable.
A global CORDEX-based dataset delineating urban areas and their surroundings to assess climate change in megacities
18 December 2025
The analysis was conducted at horizontal resolutions of 25 km globally and 12.5 km for Europe. To facilitate future applications, we provide a Python-based workflow that can be extended for the analysis of additional cities and RCMs, including tools for evaluating the urban climate island effect.
Ocean warmed by climate change fed intense rainfall: study
11 December 2025
The cyclones are the latest in a series of deadly weather disasters affecting Southeast Asia this year, resulting in loss of life and property damage.
Midwestern scientists join global effort to study extreme drought in grasslands
12 December 2025
Grasslands are one of the most widespread ecosystems in our region,” Portales-Reyes said. “About 40% of North America used to be a grassland, and they're very important culturally and also for conservation purposes.
UNCCD Panama meeting advances financial, cooperation avenues for global land and drought action
7 December 2025
As part of the road from Riyadh to Ulaanbator, delegates and non-state actors exchanged on how to advance the Action Agenda that emerged from COP16, including the Riyadh Global Drought Resilience Partnership and the Drought Resilience Investment Facility.
Dubai rains: Residents asked to stay indoors amid heavy rain, flooding alerts
19 December 2025
Along with the UAE, the Gulf states of Qatar and Saudi Arabia have also issued alerts after a heavy downpour on Thursday.
High frequency of moraine-dammed lake outburst floods driven by global warming
17 December 2025
Glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) represent a major hazard in mountain regions, yet considerable uncertainty persists regarding whether their frequency has increased in recent decades and to what extent this trend is linked to climate change.
Climate change supercharged deadly $20 billion Asia floods, finds study
11 December 2025
Warmer Indian Ocean waters about 0.2 degrees Celsius above long-term seasonal averages likely fueled the two strongest storms, Cyclones Ditwah and Senyar, by supplying extra heat and moisture, scientists reported in a rapid World Weather Attribution analysis released Thursday.
World Bank Approves New Grant to Boost Climate-Resilient Farming and Food Security in Morocco
18 December 2025
The World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a $4 million grant from the Livable Planet Fund (LPF) to Morocco to provide additional funding for the Transforming Agri-food Systems Program.
Official estimates of global food insecurity undercount acute hunger
12 December 2025
As of 2023, international agencies and governments use IPC analyses to allocate more than US$6 billion of humanitarian assistance annually. Here we evaluate data from approximately 1 billion people in more than 10,000 IPC subnational analyses conducted between 2017 and 2023.
Climateflation and Water Scarcity: Why Africa Faces the World’s Sharpest Food-Security Risks
12 December 2025
Extreme weather-driven harvest failures in Africa contribute to global price surges and increased food market volatility. Rising food prices, often triggered by such shocks, significantly increase the likelihood of social unrest across African countries.
On World Soil Day, Rajasthan traditional water systems offer climate change lessons
5 December 2025
The desert region’s communities have relied on water reservoirs and wells built on a deep, practical knowledge of how soils behave in extreme aridity.
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.
The water footprints of global food and agriculture trade
19 December 2025
Food systems are the dominant user of freshwater resources, accounting for almost 70 per cent of global freshwater withdrawals. International trade in food and agricultural products effectively transfers vast volumes of ‘virtual water’ used throughout supply chains to consumer markets, where the impacts of the water use embedded in products are often invisible to consumers.
3 trends defining water innovation in 2025 and what they mean for the global water agenda in 2026
16 December 2025
It's time to recognize that water is now central to business strategy, regulatory action and the structure of the water technology market.
Renewable water availability per person plunges 7 percent in a decade as global scarcity deepens, FAO data shows
12 December 2025
The update provides a global overview of how water availability and use are evolving, presenting new data on irrigation, efficiency, and water stress reported through the 2024 AQUASTAT cycle. Renewable water refers to freshwater that is naturally replenished through the hydrologic cycle, which includes evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
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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