68th IEC and 23rd ICID Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, 8-14 October 2017 E-mail : cnm@mxcid.org, brobles@tlaloc.imta.mx, luis.rendon@cna.gob.mx, luis.rendon@conagua.gob.mx
2016 Irrigation Australia International Conference and Exhibition gains support from Lord Mayor of Melbourne click here
Pakistan can achieve prosperity with focused agriculture strategy
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CLIMATE CHANGE
Supporting the LDCs on climate change adaptation
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DRAINAGE
USA: Drainage field day scheduled for Thursday, September 10th
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DROUGHTS
Uganda: Germany, IGAD give Karamoja Shs470 billion
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Latin America: Cuba to use cloud seeding to fight drought
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European ‘extreme weather belt’ linked to worst drought since 2003
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FLOODS
Devastating flooding in Myanmar/ Burma and Bangladesh
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Monsoon floods swamp hundreds of villages in northeast India, 21 dead and 50,000 in shelters
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FOOD SECURITY
Lebanon's innovative approach in facing food security challenges: Conservative agriculture
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Africa: In Somalia some 855,000 people face acute food insecurity
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IRRIGATION
India: Farmer gets award for large-scale adoption of drip irrigation
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USA: Mobile drip irrigation seeking foothold in western Kansas fields
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WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Call for Brazil to improve water governance
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SIWI proposes integration of water resources in global 2015 climate agreement during World Water Week
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Israel to join top ten water stressed by 2040 click here
LATEST PUBLICATION(S)
Elaine Salo, 2014, Final report on Gender and Water Policies in Africa project, Global Water Partnership (GWP)
This publication examines the implementation of the AMCOW gender and policy strategy, and was conducted by the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies (University of Pretoria) and the Water Research Commission (South Africa), supported by GWP. click here
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