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IAL is the Australian representative body of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). ICID was established in 1950 as a non-profit, non-governmental international organisation 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.

Australia joined ICID in 1952 and has since been actively associated with ICID activities at a national as well as an international level. The Australian National Committee hosted the 10th IEC in Canberra in 1969, the 34th IEC in Melbourne in 1983, the 5th Afro-Regional Conference in Townsville in 1985 and the 2nd Asian Regional Conference in Echuca in 2004.

Mr Ronald East (1959-62); Dr. J.S. Abbott (1962-65); Professor D.J. Constable (1987-90) and Dr. Hector Malano (2000 – 03) were the Vice Presidents.  Stephen Mills as Chairman of ANCID from 1998 – 2008 has led the Australian delegations to ICID. This role will now be the responsibility of the CEO of IAL and the Chairman of the ICID National Committee of Australia (ICID NCA). Chair of ICID NCA, Willem F. Vlotman, was elected Vice President of ICID for 2009 – 2012.

The National Committee of Australia is actively represented in 15 ICID work bodies. .A list of the current ICID work bodies with Australian representation can be downloaded at left. This list will be adjusted as circumstances dictate and changes will be communicated to ICID several months before the annual International Executive Council meetings (IEC).

ICID news and newsletter can be downloaded here.

For copies of Irrigation and Drainage and other related publications please visit www.interscience.Wiley/com./journal.ird.

1.   Farmer controlled water supply:  farm reservoirs, total channel control, more groundwater

2.   Emitter delivery systems: centre pivot*, drip, etc.

3.   Drainage of seasonal flooding, especially Africa

4.   Drain controllers*, sub-irrigation

5.   Wetting-drying rice*, especially Asia

6.   Irrigation with poor quality waters:  reuse, fresh-saline, etc.

7.   Wetting front indicator*

8.   Improved in-field husbandry: no-till (NT), runoff farming, catch cropping, etc

9.   Salt and drought tolerant food crops

10. Remote sensing with internet and mobile communications*

     *Indicates ICID WatSave Award winning contributions

The wetting front indicator, one of ICID’s Top 10 Technologies to drive a second Green Revolution, was developed in Australia by Richard Stirzaker and Paul Hutchinson from CSIRO.  This simple but effective tool that shows irrigators when the wetting front has reached the end of a row has been a great success in Africa.

 

ICID WatSave Award 2010

Invitation for Nominations

ICID instituted ‘WatSave Awards’ in 1997 to recognize ‘outstanding, contribution to water saving in agriculture’ across the world. Entries for the nominations are now open.

Awards are given in four categories viz. (i) Technology; (ii) Innovative Water Management; and (iii) Young Professionals; and (iv) Farmer. Each award carries prize money of US$ 500 and a Citation. The ICID WatSave Awards will be presented at the 61st IEC meeting scheduled to be held in October 2010 at Yogyakarta,
Indonesia. The Awards are only made in respect of actual realized savings and not for promising research results, plans and/or good ideas/ intentions to save water. Nominations are invited for the ‘WatSave Awards 2010’ from individuals/team through National Committees/Committee. The entries are open to all professionals / teams from ICID member countries as well as non-member countries. In case of an entry from a ‘nonmember’ country, the nomination has to be routed through and validated by an active National Committee of ICID, who should be in touch with the nominee and is aware of his work’. The contact  oordinates of the ICID National Committees/ Committee, the ‘Nomination Form’, ‘Conditions and Criteria’, and ‘Check list’ of the documents to be submitted are available for download at <www.icid.org/awards.html> . The deadline   for receipt of the entries from the applicants along with a completed ‘Nomination Form’ etc. to the National Committee (NC) is 30 April 2010 and from NCs to Central Office ICID, New Delhi is 31st May 2010. The entries should be submitted electronically to respective National Committees well in advance of the deadlines to facilitate processing. The nominations sent directly to the Central Office, ICID will not be entertained. The selection of the winners from amongst the nominations received will be made by an International Panel of Judges. National Committees are urged to give a wide publicity to these awards in their country among actual farming communities and persona actively engaged in water savings/conservation practices. For further information, please contact Dr. Vijay K. Labhsetwar, Director, ICID at E-mail: <icid@icid.org>