Water secure world free of poverty and hunger through sustainable rural development NOVEMBER 2017

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1 INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON IRRIGATION AND November DRAINAGE 2017 News Update News Update Water secure word free of poverty and hunger through sustainabe rura deveopment NOVEMBER 2017 From Secretary Genera's Desk... Dear Coeagues, Foowing the Paris Agreement among the countries, or parties as they are caed under the UN Framework Convention for Cimate Change (UNFCCC) at COP21 in Paris 2015, there is a gain in momentum in giving adaptation the kind of attention that mitigation has been achieving over the ast two decades under UNFCCC negotiations. Despite the fact that UN-Water has been putting its case forward since 2010, finay it has been acknowedged that Water is the primary medium through which cimate change infuences Earth s ecosystem. Countries are being urged to improve and consoidate their water resources management systems and to identify and impement no regrets strategies, which have positive deveopment outcomes that are resiient to cimate change. Paris Agreement aims to strengthen the goba response to the threat of cimate change, in the context of sustainabe deveopment by Increasing the abiity to adapt to the adverse impacts of cimate change in a manner that does not threaten food production, among others. ICID is supporting NCs in bringing change in poicies and practices to dea with extreme situations of foods and droughts due to cimate change, through its Working Groups (WGs). At the same time it is partnering with FAO and other internationa organizations estabishing the "Goba Framework on Water Scarcity in Agricuture (WASAG). More about the Framework is covered in this issue. The Road Map to ICID Vision 2030 aunched during the 68th IEC in Mexico, heps deveopment of cimate change adaptation strategy by bringing a change in poicies and practices in agricuture water management (AWM) for sustainabe deveopment. It is heartening to note that various WGs have taken the activities identified under the Action Pan for impementation in the right earnest. Various decisions taken during the 68th IEC meeting and their earnest impementation wi support NCs to fufi their assigned mandates. NCs wi have to take actions to broaden their nationa network and get various stakehoders of AWM engaged for broadening coaborative actions in order to present sustainabe soutions for eradicating hunger. They wi have to pay arger roe in poicymaking. The High Leve Advisory Group on Partnership for AWM, which hed its first meeting in Mexico provides an exceent opportunity in that direction. The Executive Counci took a bod decision to strengthen the financia sustainabiity of ICID by revisiting the annua subscription formuae, which woud aso require innovative financia management of NCs themseves. NCs have been addressed to represent, if there are any issues that they face in impementing the formuae, so that the transition to the new regime coud be smoothened as far as possibe. Presenty, Centra Office is working cosey with various WG chairs in finaizing the minutes. By the end of this month patrons wi receive the Draft Minutes of the 68th IEC Meeting. It is aready acknowedged that we need to reorient the way we work, if we have to achieve our goas and mission. I urge a the chairs to start the process of consutations with their working group members to take their activities forward. Pease fee free to et us know when you woud ike to organize webinars and virtua meetings for your WGs. Centra Office is ready to hep you to make an eary start and achieve the desired objectives. With best wishes, Avinash C Tyagi Secretary Genera Managing Water Scarcity in Agricuture The United Nations Framework Convention on Cimate Change (UNFCCC) hosted the 23rd Session of the Conference of Parties (COP23), from 6-17 November 2017 in Bonn, Germany. The event, convened by the Presidency of Fiji, was attended by more than 20,000 participants with the aim to take forward the work on the impementation of the Paris Cimate Change Agreement and gavanize cimate action by a reevant stakehoders. The Agricuture Action Day of COP23 was organized to on 10 November 2017 with specific focus on Managing Water Scarcity for Agricuture. Deputy Director ( From L-R ): Nthopayizi Mphande, Zambia; Tatiana Fedotova, Word Business Counci on Sustainabe Deveopment (WBCSD); Ocay Ünver, FAO; Luis Feipe Acocer Espinosa, CONAGUA, Mexico; Oyuun Sanjaasürengiin, Goba Water Partnership (GWP); Mariet Verhoeff-Cohen, Women for Water Partnership (WfWP); and Avinash Tyagi, Internationa Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) Dr. Ocay Ünver, FAO set the scene through a presentation on Goba Framework on Water Scarcity in Agricuture (WASAG): Emerging Perspectives. He emphasized the roe of WASAG in addressing the issues of poverty, hunger and water which are we aigned with the Sustainabe Deveopment Goas and ICID Vision Secretary 1

2 News Update November 2017 Genera Avinash C. Tyagi, a member of the Interim Steering Committee of WASAG represented ICID as a paneist pointed out that the WASAG vision A Word whose food systems are secure and resiient to increasing water scarcity in a changing cimate is cosey inked to the ICID mission to faciitate prudent agricuture water management and reiter ated ICID s commitment to take the outcomes of the WASAG to the fied eve through its network of the Nationa Committees from 60 countries. The overa objective of the session was to bring together partners, key stakehoders and country representatives to discuss progress made towards achieving the objectives WASAG and mobiize further commitments and action through feedback from a the stakehoders. It was entited What soutions do you propose to cope with the threats of water scarcity and cimate change to agricuture and food security? Are there opportunities to be pursued? Dr. Oyun Sanjaasuren, Mongoia, Chair of Goba Partnership as the moderator gave opening remarks. Ms Mariet Verhoeff-Cohen, Deputy Chair of the Interim Steering Committee (ISC) of WASAG and Chair of Women for Water Partnership, gave a brief outine of the WASAG. She pointed out that WASAG wi support the deveopment and depoyment of poicies, strategies, programmes and fied capacity for adaptation of agricuture to water scarcity. Ms Tatiana Fedotova, representative of the Word Business Counci on Sustainabe Deveopment and a partner of WASAG; and Ms. Nthopayizi Mphande, Young Aquacuture Farmer, Zambia aso participated in the pane. A short video on sma-scae farmers in Rwanda was screened and it highighted the opportunities in agricuture and agribusiness for young farmers. The outcome of the event showcased rea-word cases of stakehoders, incuding women, indigenous peope, private sector and partners, soving probems reated to water scarcity whie creating cimate benefits. WASAG endorsed in UNCCD COP13 Drought Poicy The Goba Framework on Water Scarcity in Agricuture (WASAG) was endorsed by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) during the 13th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP13) hed in Ordos, China from 6-16 September The COP concuded with the issuance of the Ordos Decaration, a decree by 80 ministers urging enhanced action to fight desertification. A key decision adopted at COP13 was concerning Poicy advocacy on drought by UNCCD wherein the roe of WASAG has aso been recognized: Taking note of the various existing initiatives at a eves in reation to drought, incuding the Goba Framework on Water Scarcity in Agricuture initiative and the UN-Water initiative of the UNCCD secretariat, Word Meteoroogica Organization, Food and Agricuture Organization of the United Nations, Convention on Bioogica Diversity and UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Deveopment in buiding capacities to support countries to deveop and impement nationa drought management poicies, and emphasizing the need to ensure coherence, coordination, and compementarity. Consider utiizing the Goba Framework on Water Scarcity in Agricuture initiative as a knowedgesharing partnership to hep countries deveop their drought preparedness pans. FAO and its partners, incuding ICID aunched the Goba Framework to create and strengthen vauabe partnerships to address the increasingy urgent issues of water scarcity in a changing cimate with a more hoistic approach. Fu text of UNCCD COP13 on drought poicy advocacy can be downoaded at sites/defaut/ fies/sessions/documents/ /iccd_ COP%2813%29_L E.pdf. Web Initiatives on Cimate Change and Agricuture New COP23 website aunched Coinciding with the UN Cimate Change Conference 2017, a new dynamic COP23 website funded by the German Government and with vountary support from the Government of Norway and the European Union was aunched. The initiative is a part of a much wider upgrade of the UN Cimate Change secretariat s web presence towards a new 21st century system with modern features and an enhanced user-friendy format. Avaiabe in French and Spanish, the fuy functiona website features a newsroom and a caendar of events from various UN Cimate Change databases. Visit the new unfccc.int FAO and UNDP aunch onine course on Cimate Change & Agricuture An intensive six-week onine course featuring eading goba experts on cimate change was initiated on November 13, 2017 to equip the participants, particuary the young professionas to have a better understanding of the interinkages between cimate change, agricuture, food security and the roe of Nationa Adaptation Pans (NAPs). The Massive Open Onine Course (MOOC) tited Nationa Adaptation Pans: Buiding Cimate Resiience in Agricuture encourages the participants to engage with goba experts on cimate change, expore best practices and new approaches for buiding cimate resiience in an interactive video-based format. On competion of the course, participants wi be abe to effectivey discuss the inks between cimate change, agricuture and sustainabe deveopment, and the roe of internationa agreements incuding the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement. To register onine, pease visit: www. napmooc.unccearn.org. 2

3 November 2017 News Update Cimate Adaptation Technoogies Cimate Change A d a p t a t i o n Technoogies for Water: A practitioner s guide to adaptation technoogies for increased water sector resiience, a new pubication by UN Environment DHI Centre on Water and Environment, Cimate Technoogy Centre and Network (CTCN) and the UNEP DTU Partnership provides a comprehensive overview of water adaptation technoogies to date. The pubication incudes 102 adaptation technoogies for buiding resiience to cimate change induced hazards in the water sector. It provides a comprehensive overview of specific water adaptation technoogies and techniques that address chaenges resuting from cimate change. It aso features a ibrary with further information on each of the adaptation technoogies. The cornerstone of this guide is the water cimate change adaptation technoogy cataogue deveoped for the purposes systematizing the most pressing cimate change chaenges in the water sector. In addition, the guide incudes an introduction to severa approaches to seection and prioritization of the adaptation technoogies. For access to the pubication in pdf format, kindy visit: goba/news/2017/11/aunched-cimatechange-adaptation-technoogies-for-water Modernization of Irrigation Systems: A Goba Perspective Sensing the urgency of revamping the irrigation sector through modernization from a goba perspective, Mr. Herve Pusqueec, Former Irrigation Adviser, Word Bank deivered a workshop ecture on Irrigation Modernization: Lessons from Goba Experience on 31 October, 2017 at the Word Bank Office, New Dehi. Chaired by Mr. Piai, Commissioner (MOWR) the workshop incuded officias from ICID; Mr. Sikka, IWMI Representative-India; CWC officias and WB water sector speciaists. Secretary Genera Avinash C. Tyagi, ICID pitched in as the discussion moderator during the workshop. The workshop covered the technica, financia and operationa aspects of irrigation sector. It stated that funding by Word Bank and ADB has graduay shifted from infrastructure deveopment, eaving a vacuum and bigger roe for the private sector, which is currenty negigibe. Mr. Pusqueec emphasized that carity needs to be embedded in the concept of modernization and rehabiitation. Whie the former indicates a compete "hardware and software" revamp of irrigation systems the atter is about bringing back an irrigation system to its design performance. Without a strong effort to improve the productivity of existing systems may ead to regiona pockets of food deficit. Case exampe of Austraia was projected which has eapfrogged directy from 19th century irrigation technoogy to 21st century automated system. The other technoogy mentioned was geosynthetics appication in cana ining, which reduces water seepage osses and strengthens cana sides for better operation and maintenance. Mr. Herve suggested that fexibiity, reiabiity and equity are the keywords for irrigation systems. He stressed that O&M financing and institutiona aspects shoud be factored in at the design stage and a stakehoders shoud be invoved from day one in the panning and design of irrigation systems. In respect to Water User Associations (WUA s), he stated that many deveoping countries are trying to institutionaize WUA's. Secretary Genera, ICID identified capacity buiding at the oca eve a critica input for making irrigation effective. Lack of communication among the diverse stakehoders and absence of an innovative patform added to the probem. Word Bank proposed that knowedge exchange initiatives coud be worth exporing with coaborative efforts from ICID, Word Bank and CBIP. As a precursor to the workshop, Mr. Pusqueec visited the ICID Centra Office on 30 October, 2017 for a detaied discussion on the future orientation of ICID and the need to overhau its roe in exchanging new knowedge and information on irrigation and drainage. He emphasized that there has been a decine in pubic funding of arge irrigation projects and therefore, it is imperative that ICID engage a private sector stakehoders and motivate them through exhibitions in WIFs, Congresses, Web Directory of Services/ Products, WatSave Awards and specific side events. Further, it was mentioned that papers submitted for ICID events and journa shoud aso incude practica approaches. To address this gap, Secretary Genera, ICID suggested that the composition of working groups shoud be more technica and impact oriented. Thematic symposiums and an active roe payed by the bigger NCs with avaiabe resources and expertise can faciitate frequent action and deiberation. ICID participates in WaterScapes The Internationa Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) participated in the Indo-German symposium WaterScapes hed on 5-6 October 2017 in New Dehi. The symposium faciitated a knowedge transfer environment that bridged science, poicy and practice. More than 20 technica presentations were given during the symposium wherein eminent schoars, eading experts and practitioners from Germany and India taked about issues reated to water, primariy focusing on four broad themes: (i) Hydro hazards (ii) Urbanisation and water resource management (iii) Integrated River Basin Management and (iv) Water Security and Governance. A the participants exchanged their views, ideas, initiatives and approaches, and jointy pursued commonaities and innovative soutions to secure a sustainabe and efficient water resource management. 3

4 News Update November 2017 The keynote address was deivered by Prof. Dr. Brigitta Schütt, Vice President, Freie Universität Berin on Integrated Watershed Management. She stated that though there is enough knowedge about watershed management, but due to asymmetric capacities of various stakehoders it has not been appied in the fied. She suggested that future approaches shoud ensure a judicious mix of both traditiona knowedge and new technoogy in order to make agricutura water management more contextua and sustainabe at the oca eve. The presentation on Water-Food-Energy Nexus in Urban Areas by Prof. Dr. Jörg Drewes, Technica University of Munich (TUM) was directy reevant to ICID s mandate and activities and offered an incrementa earning vaue. Dr. Drewes advocated that a paradigm shift is needed in the integrated urban panning by using Water-Energy-Food nexus approach and to achieve this wide range of technoogies are avaiabe for urban water recamation and reuse couped with resource recovery. Prof. Dr. Martin Voss, Freie Universität Berin gave an interesting presentation on the Cuture of Managing Food Events. He highighted how a cuture or beief system pays a prominent roe in the way we perceive risks and manage them. He stressed that a good integration system in panning a ocation-specific disaster management can hep mitigate risks and damages caused due to natura hazards ike foods. Aso, the roe of communication among diverse stakehoders cannot be negated. The symposium ended on a vibrant note with a session dedicated to young professionas wherein they presented their ongoing innovative research on water resources management and governance. Indonesia Caing: 70 th IEC Meeting and 3 rd Word Irrigation Forum (WIF3), Bai, Indonesia Cimate change is predicted to have a massive impact on water avaiabiity by drasticay atering hydroogica regimes across the word. Sustainabiity of irrigation as a part of water resources system has become one of the most important agenda to cope with. To formuate a new perspective and strategy for the future of irrigation system, the Indonesian Nationa Committee of ICID (INACID) wi host the Word Irrigation Forum 3 and the 70th IEC Meeting of ICID from 1-7 September 2019 at the Bai Internationa Convention Centre (BICC), Indonesia. The 7-day event wi focus on the main theme Deveopment for water, food and nutrition security in a competitive environment covering wide-range of topics under three sub-themes, namey (i) Enabing poicy environment for water, food and energy (ii) Roe of Civi Society and NGOs with focus on farmers and extension faciities (iii) Improving agricutura water productivity with focus on rura transformation. 4 Attaining sustainabe deveopment under imiting natura resources as envisaged under Agenda 2030, cas for recognizing the interinkages between various sectors. A cear understanding of these interinkages such as nexus between water, food and energy requires greater interaction among stakehoders from a three sectors. WIF3 wi provide an opportunity for the actors in these sectors to come together and deveop pathways to the sustainabe deveopment towards the Future We Want. It wi provide an exceent forum to a the irrigation participants to exchange and share their experiences, technoogies and ideas to promote sustainabe deveopment through irrigation and drainage. Technica Tours Jatiuwih is a favourite tourist destination in Bai famous for the beautifu rice terrace unfoding from the hi to the coasta side. The oca paddy has been panted in this pace. Moreover, Jatiuwih is famous for its organic agricuture system due to its ocation in the pateau of Watukaru Mount, suitabe for agricutura activities. Subak Museum dispays the coection of agricuture/farming toos and integrated rice-fied irrigation system of Bai caed Subak. Known to the word for centuries it has been awarded the Word Heritage Cutura Landscape status by UNESCO and is deepy ingrained in the Bainese cuture since the 11th century. The museum has aso become a favourite hotspot for educationa tour for students and foreign tourists. ICID participants wi get a good opportunity to cosey observe the ancient irrigation technoogy. Accompanying Person s Programs The free programs are provided to expore Bai and its rich cuture and tradition. Registration process is free which incudes interesting programs ike Cooking Cass & Ubud Shopping; Uuwatu & Traditiona Craft; Barong Dance and a visit to Tampak Siring Tempe. INACID is honoured to give the first announcement for the Word Irrigation Forum 3 to a the prospective deegates and hope that the beautifu province of Bai wi give ampe reasons to the attendees to experience the wonders and richness of the history and ancient civiization of the region. For more,

5 November 2017 News Update Goba Water Security Conference 2018 In a bid to discuss current and future water security probems, the American Society of Agricutura and Bioogica Engineers (ASABE) in coaboration with the Indian Society of Agricutura Engineers (ISAE) wi organize a conference on Goba Water Security for Agricuture and Natura Resources (GWSC) from 3-6 October 2018 in Hyderabad, India. The conference wi aim to bring together farmers, researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, and poicy makers on a common patform. It wi specificay focus on water security for producing food, fiber, and energy crops whie maintaining water quaity and quantity needed for natura baance in the ecosystem. It wi aso aim to share research, and discuss creative soutions that can be appicabe at various scaes in different regions. As a precursor to the conference, a meeting was hed with the organizers and partners to discuss ICID s roe as a technica partner. Prof. Gajendra Singh (oca foca point for GWSC) visited ICID Centra Office on 26 Sept 2017 and met Secretary Genera Avinash C. Tyagi and other ICID officias. During the meeting it was decided that ICID wi serve as a technica partner for agricutura water management and contribute a position paper on Water Accounting. A foow-up meeting of the conference chair, organizers and partner organizations incuding ICID, Word Bank, and ICAR was hed at the WB Office, New Dehi on 9 October It was decided that each technica session wi be steered by a particuar partner, incuding its theme and technica contributions. As such sessions woud be owned by ASABE, Word Bank, IWMI, FAO, CGIAR, ICID, ICAR/IASE, etc. Sated for October 2018, the conference is expected to be attended by more than 300 participants from more than 30 countries and internationa organizations. Farmers from around the word wi be invited to participate on issues concerning them, incuding Water Users' Association (WUAs). A session wi be soey dedicated to water industry representatives with moderated discussions and exhibitions. Emerging technoogies such as Internet of Things (IoT) wi aso form a part of the conference. For more, kindy visit: Smart Water Use in Crop Irrigation Two papers pubished in Irrigation and Drainage journa may hep improve estimates of water requirements for crops, which wi hep save water and minimize osses, aowing more and to be irrigated and subsequenty more food to be produced. The studies pubished were competed as a part of the EU-funded Water4Crops project. The resuts of one study on an experimenta farm near Boogna, Itay indicated that crop irrigation water requirements based on evapotranspiration obtained from modern technoogies (Scintiometer and Eddy Covariance) coud save at east 50% of irrigation water. Another benefit is that these technoogies do not need the crop coefficient Kc (cacuated from evapotranspiration data) which may be difficut to obtain for many irrigation practitioners. The other pubication highighted a new technoogy caed the Cosmicray Soi Moisture Observation System (Cosmos) that can be used to determine when and how much water to appy in irrigation. This strategy saves over 40% of water used for sprinker irrigation and 25% of norma drip irrigation. The Cosmos technoogy is one step in the right direction as it provides continuous, integrated, area-based vaues and soves the probem of spatia variabiity often found in point measurements. This method coud aso be made operationa for irrigation managers to determine the soi moisture deficit, hence determine when and how much to irrigate to avoid harmfu water stress. Research ed by the Centre for Ecoogy & Hydroogy (CEH) in UK coud hep improve the estimates of the amount of water needed for crop irrigation, heping to aeviate both water stress and food insecurity in many regions by aowing more efficient irrigation across more and. The resuts have a wordwide impication as irrigation uses 70% of freshwater resources gobay. Link to Studies: 1. Towards Accurate Estimation of Crop Water Requirement without the Crop Coefficient Kc: New Approach Using Modern Technoogies: wiey.com/doi/ /ird.2153/fu 2. The Cosmic-ray Soi Moisture Observation System (Cosmos) for Estimating the Crop Water Requirement: New Approach: ird.2152/fu Irrigation and Drainage The ICID journa, Irrigation and Drainage is now avaiabe onine with its atest Voume 66.4, pubished in October The new voume is FREE via Wiey onine ibrary for a ICID Office Bearers, Work body members and subscribers. Newy added features incude: Papers avaiabe in easy to read PDF format Access to fu text of a the artices as we as Tabes of Contents and Abstracts pubished in Irrigation and Drainage since 2001 Eary View service dispay papers onine as soon they are accepted for pubication, that are severa months earier than the papers pubished in print Sign up for FREE Wiey Aerts & receive the Tabe of Contents via emai when pubished onine. Cick for direct access to the page with the papers of the current issue of Irrigation and journa/ /(issn)

6 News Update November 2017 NEWS BUZZ: ICID Nationa Committees IACID (Austraia) Irrigation Austraia (IAL) hed its Annua Genera Meeting on 19 October 2017 through a teeconference. Mr. Simon Treptow, Genera Manager of Irrigear Stores Ltd. was wecomed as the new incoming director. Chairman Andrew Ogden, Mr. Peter Brueck, Mr. Bruce Scarterfied and Mr. Monir Vranes returned for another term. In highighting the year's activities, Chairman Ogden spoke about the opportunities that Irrigation Austraia is keen to address in the future, especiay the chaenge of buiding on the positive resuts achieved so far. He thanked a the members for their ongoing support and invovement and indicated that Irrigation Austraia wi continue to grow in its roe as the peak nationa body representing a sectors of the Austraian irrigation industry. Ms. Kath Eden was given a warm farewe foowing the end of her two-year tenure on the board. The biennia 2018 Irrigation Austraia conference, touted as the ony Irrigation conference in Austraia soey dedicated to promoting the entire irrigation industry vaue chain, wi be hed from June 2018 at the new Internationa Convention Centre, Sydney. The theme of the conference Addressing the Big Issues wi specificay focus on topics such as energy provision and affordabiity, urban water poicy and reform, infrastructure deveopment and drought-management strategies. The keynote speakers incude Mr. Phiip Gyde, Chief Executive, Murray Daring Basin Authority; Dr. Juian Cribb, Consutant with Juian Cribb & Associates; Mr. Matthew Warren, Chief Executive of the Austraian Energy Counci; and Feix B. Reinders, President, ICID. For more info, kindy visit: iaice.com.au INCSW (India) The Indian Nationa Committee of ICID (INCSW-CWC) has kick started it s preparations for the upcoming 9th Internationa Micro irrigation Exhibition and Conference to be hed in January 2019 in Aurangabad, Maharashtra on the theme Micro Irrigation in Modern Agricuture. A committee meeting was hed on 3 Nov 2017 New Dehi to discuss the event proceedings and preparations. Secretary Genera Avinash C. Tyagi, ICID attended the meeting. The conference wi aim to promote the use of micro irrigation on arge-scae with a specia focus on smahoder, micro finance, automation and new techniques, O&M services and capacity deveopment, water use efficiency and poverty aeviation. An exhibition wi be arranged for private sector participation from across the word. The three-day event wi aso incude roundtabes and side events with specia focus on women and farmers participation and rura deveopment. PANCID (Pakistan) The Centre of Exceence in Water Resources Engineering (CEWRE) is organizing an internationa conference from December, 2017 at UET Lahore, Pakistan, keeping in view the increasing importance of hydropower as a cean, renewabe and vita source of sustainabe energy. The conference woud provide a great opportunity to engineers, hydroogists, geo-scientists and other professionas engaged in the fied of Hydropower Engineering to share their expertise and experiences. It wi aso incude a number of technica sessions to hep bridge the gap between theoretica knowedge and fied practices. ICID Events Events Corner Drainage and Food Contro Summit, November 2017, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. For more detais visit: drainagefoodcontro.com/ 8th Asian Regiona Conference on the theme Irrigation in Support of an Evergreen Revoution, 2-4 May 2018, Kathmandu, Nepa. Contact: Mr. Bashu Dev Lohanee, Secretary, Nepa Nationa Committee, ICID (NENCID), Deputy Director Genera, Department of Irrigation; Emai: ohanibasu@yahoo.com, irrigation@ wink.com.np; Website: np/8th-annua-regiona-conference/ 69th Internationa Executive Counci Meeting and Internationa Conference, Saskatoon, Canada, August 2018, Saskatoon, Canada. For more detais visit: avaiabe at Goba Water Security for Agricuture and Natura Resources (GWSAN): An ASABE Goba Initiative Conference, Hyderabad, India, 3-6 October For more detais visit: 9th Internationa Micro Irrigation Conference, January 2019, Aurangabad, India. Contact: Mr. Anuj Kanwa, Member Secretary, Indian Nationa Committee on Surface Water (INCSW); Emai: incid-cwc@ nic.in; Website: gov.in/ main/incid/wecome.htm. 3rd Word Irrigation Forum (WIF3) and 70th IEC Meeting, October 2019, Bai, Indonesia. Contact: Ir. Mohamad Hasan, President, Indonesian Nationa Committee of ICID (INACID), Director Genera of Research and Deveopment, Emai: inacid_indonesia@ yahoo.co.id, mohasan53@yahoo.co.id 24th ICID Congress and 71st IEC Meeting, September 2020, Sydney, Austraia. Contact: Mr. Bryan Ward, Chief Executive Officer, Irrigation's Austraia Limited (IAL) (Incorporating IACID), Emai: Bryan.ward@ irrigation.org.au, Website: irrigation.org.au Other Events Irrigation Austraia Internationa Conference and Exhibition, June 2018 in Sydney, Austraia. For detais, visit Internationa Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) 48 Nyaya Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Dehi , India, Te: , , Fax: ; E-mai: icid@icid.org; Website: Facebook: Editoria Team: Dr. Sahdev Singh, Madhu Mohanan, Aditi Bhowmick; Layout: Keshav Dev Tanwar 6