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Shahaji
Manikrao Somawanshi, Bharat Kawale and Sanjay Madhukar Belsare, India,
receiving award from President Chandra Madramootoo |
SPONSORS
- 2009 - Indian National Committee on Irrigation
and Drainage (INCID)
- 2008 - Pakistan National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (PANCID)
- 2007 - U.S. National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (USCID)
- 2006 - Malaysian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (MANCID),
and Spanish
National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (CERYD)
- 2005 - Spanish National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (CERYD)
- 2004 - French National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (AFEID)
- 2003 - Japanese National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (JNC-ICID)
- 2002 - Canadian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (CANCID)
- 2001 - Korean National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (KCID)
- 2000 - Indian National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (INCID)
- 1999 - Cinese National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (CNCID)
- 1998 - Netherlands National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (NETHCID),
Directorate General of Public Works & Water Management, and IHE
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The International
Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) decided at its 48th meeting in
Oxford, UK to institute the ICID WatSave Annual Award(s). Since then the award(s)
have been presented each year to an individual or a team. It is ICID's aim to
award the Annual Watsave Awards for the recognition of outstanding contributions to water conservation or water saving and thereby to create an ICID-wide culture
of water savings for the benefit of all water-users. Therefore, the Awards are
only made in respect of actual realised savings and not for promising
research results, plans and/or good ideas/intentions to save water. There are
three categories of awards viz.:
WatSave
Awards - 2010 : Invitation for Nominations
Re:
IC 96/Awards
Dated: January 25, 2010
All National Committees/ Committee of ICID
Subject:
WatSave Awards - 2010 - Invitation for nominations
Dear
Sir/Madam,
Greetings
from the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID)
at New Delhi, India.
It
is my great pleasure to announce that ICID is inviting nominations for
the WatSave Awards 2010 from world over. Awards for innovations to individuals
or team from across the world to recognize their outstanding contributions
to water saving/conservation in agriculture and are given in four categories
viz. (i) Technology, (ii) Innovative Water Management, (iii) Young Professionals,
and (iv) Farmer. Each award carries prize money of US$500 and a Citation.
The ICID WatSave Awards for the year 2010 will be presented at the 61st
meeting of the IEC scheduled to be held in October 2010, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia.
Nominations
are invited for the 'WatSave Awards 2010' from individuals/ team
of individuals through ICID 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 'non-member' 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 aware
of nominee's work'.
All
the National Committees/ Committee are requested to send their nominations
by inviting contributions on outstanding achievement from all those
professionals who are engaged in water saving/ conservation activities.
The deadline for receipt of the entries from the National Committees
along with a completed Nomination Form (Annex
1) to the Central Office ICID, New Delhi is 31 May 2010.
The 'Conditions and Criteria' set for the awards are given in Annex
2. Annex 3 shows the
checklist of enclosures to be forwarded by the National Committee while
submitting the nominations.
The
selection of the winners from amongst the nominations received will
be made by an International Panel of Judges to be appointed by the President,
ICID in consultation with the Chairman, Working Group on Water Saving
for Agriculture (WG-WATS).
I
request all the national committees/ committee to carry out primary
evaluation of the nomination(s) in light of the questions posed in the
evaluation process, before submitting only one of them in any particular
category (if there had been more responses) to the Central Office, New
Delhi. Nominations not complying with the above requirements or more
than one nomination from the some National Committee in a particular
category is liable to be rejected.
Full
details of the awards and excerpts of the past award winning contributions
are available on ICID web site www.icid.org/awards.html
May
I request your National Committees/Committee to give a wider publicity
to ICID WatSave awards in your country? Please widely circulate the
announcement, especially among actual farming and young professional
communities and persons actively involved/ dedicated to water saving/conservation
practices besides professionals engaged in water management to enable
'outstanding' submissions. Your interest in ICID's initiative for 'water
saving' through its 'WATSAVE' awards will help to enhance the value
of this measure.
Yours
faithfully,
(M. Gopalakrishnan)
Secretary General
Cc:
Prof. Dr. Chandra A. Madramootoo, President, ICID
All Vice Presidents, ICID
VPH Dr. Eng. Hussein El-Atfy, Chairman, WG-WATS
All Members of the WG-WATS
Encl.:
As above |
Winners
of Watsave Awards 2009
Technology
Award
Prof.
Dr. Rai Niaz Ahmad (Pakistan)
 Prof.
Dr. Ahmad's 'Wheat Bed Planter' won him the WatSave Technology Award 2009.
The bed planting machine develops two beds and three furrows in single
operation. It is designed to plant four rows on one bed. A furrow for
irrigation separates each bed. There is a buffer zone in the center of
four rows on the bed. The machine develops two lines of crop on both sides
of the furrow. Each furrow irrigates only 20 cm (8 inches) of the adjacent
bed. The center to center distance of two beds is 90 cm (36 inches) with
a bed of 60 cm (24 inches). Thus, the machine has provision to plant 4
lines in 90 cm (36 inches) width while maintaining the traditional plant
population. This saved 45% of water compared to traditional methods, with
17% increase in yield. The machine has been used for other crops (cotton,
maize and rice with different but similarly impressive results). The water
productivity improvements were achieved on 815 ha at four locations, but
the technology has great potential (8.4 Mha of wheat in Pakistan alone).
The work of Dr. Ahmad
can be more succinctly termed as "Bed Planting Machine". Click
here for more details.
Innovative
Water Management Award
Messrs Shahaji
Manikrao Somawanshi, Bharat Kawale and Sanjay Madhukar Belsare (India)
  
Messrs Shahaji Manikrao
Somawanshi, Bharat Kawale and Sanjay Madhukar Belsare's work on 'Transformation
of irrigation through management transfer' won them the WatSave Innovative
Water Management Award 2009.
Participatory Irrigation
Management (PIM) was introduced in the project in 1990 with 3 Water User
Associations (WUAs). In 2004, 24 WUAs took over the operation and maintenance
of the entire irrigation scheme. Water is supplied volumetrically at the
head of canal and subsequently the Project Level Water Users Association
(PLWUA) distributes the water among 24 WUAs as per their demand and entitlements.
The PLWUA collects water charges from its member associations. Management
transfer to PLWUA has resulted in to 100% utilization of irrigation potential,
saving in water, crop diversification, and 100% collection of water charges.
In this way average area irrigated increased from 3,212 ha to 10,750 ha
after the management transfer over a period of 15 years.
The big improvement
in water productivity appears to have come in the last 5 years with management
based on assured entitlements of volumetric bulk supplies that have increased
the irrigated area by about a third with more or less the same amount
of water at the canal head.
The work of Messrs
Shahaji Manikrao Somawanshi, Bharat Kawale and Sanjay Madhukar Belsare
can be more succinctly termed as "Increased Productivity from Participatory
Management of Bulk Water Entitlements". Click
here for more details.
Young
Professional Award
Dr.
Malcolm Gillies (Australia)
 Dr.
Gillies' work on 'Development and application of innovative and advanced
simulation tools for the evaluation and optimisation of surface irrigation
systems' won him the Young Professionals Award 2009. His work was for
software (simulation tools) for the inverse solution of the volume required
for surface irrigation (furrow, bay or basin) capable of dealing with
variable conditions by virtue of being based on measurement of actual
advance and runoff.
Performance gains
(water savings) in excess of 20% are readily achievable in surface irrigation
systems through the process of evaluation and practice change. Surface
irrigation remains the dominant irrigation method in Australia at 70%
of the total area irrigated (in excess of 1,000,000 ha and 4,000,000 ML).
Measurements of performance across the main surface irrigated crops (cotton,
grains, sugar and pasture) show application efficiencies ranging from
20 to 90% but averaging about 50%. Selection of more appropriate flow
rates and irrigation times better suited to the specific soils can raise
average efficiencies to above 70%.
The work of Dr. Gillies
can be more succinctly termed as "An Observational Approach to the
Optimisation of Surface Irrigation". Click
here for more details.
Special
Recognition : Mr. Arvind Narayanrao Nalkande (India)
 Additionally,
the Panel of Judges recommended recognising the farmer initiative on "Rainwater
Conservation through Natural Cracks in Deep Black Soils" by Mr. Arvind
Narayanrao Nalkande (India). The 4692 sq. km area of the Purna valley
of Vidarbha region in Maharashtra, India characterized by high clay content
(50-70%), alkaline in reaction, calcareous with slow permeability. The
soils have low hydraulic conductivity and thus become susceptible to poor
drainage. Some areas have sodicity problem in the sub soil. The farmers
of the valley face problems like water stagnation in rainy season, poor
drainage, deterioration of soil structure, moisture stress and soil erosion.
Keeping in view the problems at grass root level, Mr. Arvind Nalkande
adopted a simple affordable and efficient technique of rain water management
and soil erosion control. He adopted the following steps - (i) Use of
natural soil cracks for conservation of rainwater, (ii) Contour cultivation
for in situ soil and water conservation, (iii) Use of farm pond for collecting
runoff, and (iv) Reuse of water from farm pond as a protective irrigation
during prolonged monsoon break. Thus, Mr. Arvind Nalkande practiced the
model of in situ rain water conservation in Dhamodi village and achieved
the following aspects - (i) Utilization of the land according to its physical
properties, (ii) Conserved as much rain water as possible at the place
where it falls, (iii) Drained out excess water with a safe velocity and
diverted it to storage ponds and stored it for future use, (iv) Avoided
gully formation and controlled soil erosion and recharged ground water,
and (v) Maximized productivity per unit area and per unit of water.
He practiced these
techniques in his own field and after visible benefits, he demonstrated
these techniques to the farmers and promoted the practical implementation
on the farmers field in his village. Click
here for more details.
Hearty Congratulations
to all the Award Winners. |
Previous
Award Winners
Innovative Water Management Award
Messrs Shahaji Manikrao Somawanshi, Bharat Kawale and Sanjay Madhukar Belsare,
India (2009) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Dr. Yousri Ibrahim Atta, Egypt (2008) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Dr. Abraham Singels, South
Africa (2007) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Dr.
Nico Benadé, South Africa (2006) [Award winning paper in PDF format]
Prof. Li Daixin, China (2005) [Award winning paper
in PDF format]
Er. Suresh. V. Sodal, India (2004) [Award winning paper
in PDF format]
Dr. Muhammad Akram Kahlown, Pakistan (2003) [Award winning
paper in PDF format]
Dr. Mahmoud Moustafa, Egypt (2002) [Award winning paper
in PDF format]
Prof. Gu Yuping, China (2001) [Award winning paper in
PDF format]
Dr. Francisco del Amor Garcia, Spain (2000) [Award winning
paper in PDF format]
Eng. Hussein El-Atfy, Egypt (1999) [Award winning paper
in PDF format]
Prof. Wu Xijin, China (1998) [Award winning paper in
PDF format]
Technology
Award
Prof. Dr. Rai
Niaz Ahmad, Pakistan (2009) [Award winning paper in PDF
format]
Dr. Yella Reddy, Mr.
Satyanarayana and Mrs.G Andal, India (2008) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Messrs Werner and Herbert Arns, Brazil (2007) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Prof. Kang Shaozhong, China (2006) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Mr. Omar Redjepow, Turkmenistan (2004) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Dr. Richard John Stirzaker (2003) [Award winning paper
in PDF format]
Mr. Robert E. Merry, UK (2002) [Award winning
paper in PDF format]
Prof. Tai Cheol Kim, Korea (2001) [Award winning paper
in PDF format]
Prof. Mao Zhi, China (2000) [Award winning paper in PDF
format]
Young
Professionals Award
Dr.
Malcolm Gillies, Australia (2009) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Dr. Amgad Elmahdi, Australia (2008) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Ms. Neelam Patel, India (2006)
[Award winning paper in PDF format]
Dr. Mohamed Maher Mohamed Ibrahim, Egypt (2005) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Dr. Juan Antonio Rodriguez Diaz, Spain (2004) [Award
winning paper in PDF format]
Mr. Tony L. Wahl, USA (2003) [Award winning paper in
PDF format]
Dr. Ashutosh Upadhyaya, India (2002) [Award winning paper
in PDF format]
Er. Sanjay M. Belsare, India (2001) [Award winning
paper in PDF format]
Mr. Gao Zhanyi, China (1999) [Award winning paper in
PDF format]
N.D.
Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation in Irrigation and
Drainage |
Triennially,
N.D. Gulhati Memorial International Lecture is delivered by an eminent professional
at the time of Congresses.
Seventh
N.D. Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation In Irrigation
and Drainage
IRRIGATION
IN THE CONTEXT OF TODAY'S GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS
Vice President Hon. Chandra A. Madramootoo (Canada)
The
7th N.D. Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation in Irrigation
and drainage was delivered by VPH Chandra Madramootoo at Lahore Congress.
The lecture provided an overview of the challenges facing irrigation and
drainage community, and the need to better manage our irrigation and drainage
systems to reduce poverty and hunger. The following is a summary of some
key aspects of his presentation.
Global Irrigation
Development
Of the 1500 million
ha of global crop land about 277 million ha (18%) are irrigated. The largest
share of the irrigated area is in Asian region (70%), followed by North
and Central America (11%), Europe (9%), Africa (5%), South America (4%),
and Oceania (1%). During the last four decades the crop land has increased
marginally, while population has more than doubled leading to a reduction
in the area of land needed to produce food for a person. Irrigation has
played an important role in increasing crop productivity. However, the
rate of irrigation expansion has declined from 2.3% in 1970-80 to 0.6%
in 2000-05 (see figure). Some countries will increasingly face water scarcity.
Future needs of water for food are huge and improved water management
systems will be required to cope with the demand.
Global Food situation
During the last four
decades the crop area harvested has hardly increased, while the world
cereal production has increased by about two and half fold. In general,
the overall food prices (in USD) are up by 75% since 2000. Cereals, in
particular rice and wheat dominate food supply and provide the largest
share of energy to the world's population. However, globally, close to
one billion people still remain malnourished, of which some 800 million
live in least developed countries (LDCs). The Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs) has targeted to reduce this number by half by 2015. In fact the
preliminary goal of MDG attempts to highlight this given its importance.
This translates into a need of reducing 22 million per year, while current
rate is only 6 million per year - posing a big challenge to bridge the
gap between the target and achievement.
There are contradictory
views as regards the impact of increasing bio-fuel crop production on
food availability. Some view that this might cause food shortage and consequent
hike in the food prices; while a few others opine that bio-fuels provide
LDCs and poor farmers new opportunities for employment to improve their
economy and livelihoods.
On-farm Water Management
and System Modernization
There has been growing
concerns over declining irrigation system performance and investment benefits,
especially in the large-scale public irrigation schemes. Improvement in
both viz., conveyance efficiency and on- farm water management is a key
for increasing the overall irrigation efficiency. Efficiency gains of
14% in gross withdrawal can also be achieved through reuse of return flows.
Improved surface irrigation methods like level furrows, sprinkler and
micro irrigation methods and use of advanced techniques of irrigation
scheduling can help improve on-farm water management. Modernization of
irrigation and drainage systems in a broad sense (technical, management,
financial, environmental) will be required at a large-scale, especially
in emerging countries to achieve the required increase in food production,
and also, in some cases, to save water for other uses.
Investment in Agriculture
It is seen that the
public spending on agriculture is the lowest in the agriculture based
countries, while the share of agriculture in GDP is the highest. National
and international investments in agriculture, official development assistance
(ODA), and the World Bank's lending in irrigation have been declining
steadily and a complacency set in that is a major cause of the recent
global food shortage.
The Way forward
In most developing
countries, the agricultural sector is considered as an engine of growth
and national governments therefore should reinvest in agriculture and
associated infrastructure. In order to reduce water withdrawals for irrigation,
upgrading of irrigation infrastructure through rehabilitation and modernization
should be given priority. Other aspects like timely maintenance of irrigation
and drainage infrastructure, investment in water storage and water saving
technologies, combating the twin menace of waterlogging and salinity through
drainage are required. Public-private investment in infrastructure is
to be encouraged. One size does not fit all, and solutions have to be
case specific.
Maximizing basin water
productivity through multi-objective decision making process, developing
a rapid innovative research agenda, capacity building at all levels and
building of institutional support for local, regional and international
markets will go a long way in achieving food security. External factors,
like impacts of bio-fuel production, climate change, virtual water trade,
changes in agriculture markets and the prices of commodities will influence
agriculture growth and allied activities. Such changes will require additional
adaptations in the development of water management measures to sustain
global food production to desired levels and avoid the probability of
a severe crisis in the coming years.
PowerPoint
Presentation
Presented
at ICID’s 20th Congress, Lahore, Pakistan
October 2008 |
Sixth N.D.
Gulhati Memorial Lecture for International Cooperation In Irrigation and Drainage
A Process-Based Approach to Improving the Performance
of Irrigated Agriculture
Dr. Albert J. Clemmens (USA)
Presented at ICID’s 19th Congress, Beijing, China
September 2005
1999
prize-winning paper in PDF format
Best
Performing Workbody Award |
2nd
Best Performing Workbody Award, 2008 |
 The
Best Performing Workbody Award (BPWA) was instituted by ICID in 2002.
The performance of a workbody is adjudged based upon a set of criteria
and its contribution towards the mandate and mission of ICID. The BPWA
2008 was presented to the ICID Journal Editorial
Board (EB-JOUR) by the Governor of Punjab on 17 October 2008 on the
occasion of the 59th IEC and 20th ICID Congress held at Lahore, Pakistan.
 ICID
Journal acts as a mouthpiece to communicate to the international water
community ICID's sixty years of experience in the promotion and transfer
of water and land management technology and related issues. ICID Journal
was granted Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) starting with Vol.49,
Issue No.1 of 2000 which was the first issue of the quarterly Journal
printed and distributed under ISSN 0971-7412. ICID Journal was also selected
for coverage in Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology and Environmental
Sciences (CC/AB&ES).
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1st
Best Performing Workbody Award |
 The
Best Performing Workbody Award (BPWA) was instituted in 2003 to recognize
the performance of workbodies between the two Congresses. The first such
award has been given to Working
Group on History of Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Control (WG-HIST).
The WG-HIST
was established in 1980. The Group has published more than 30 volumes
of Water History related documents and books, including Historical Dams
(ICID 2001), The Danube Valley (ICID 2004), The Indus Basin (ICID 2004),
"A History of Water Issues" (UNU 2005), and History of Irrigation
and Drainage of various member countries. |
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| ICID
has instituted the 'Best Paper Award' in 2006 in recognition of the outstanding
paper contributed to Irrigation and Drainage, the Journal of ICID. Annually,
starting on the occasion of the 57th IEC meeting (2006) in Kuala Lumpur,
an award will be given to the best paper published in the issues of the
Journal in the preceding year (January-December). Decision on the best paper
will be made by the Editor in consultation with the Associate Editors. The
award will be a citation plaque and Gift Books from M/s. John Wiley &
Sons Ltd. (UK). |
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Mrs.
Jianxin Mu, Mr. Shahbaz Khan and Dr. Zhanyi Gao receiving ‘Best
Paper Award 2009’ from President Chandra Madramootoo in recognition
of their outstanding paper titled “Integrated
Water Assessment Model for Water Budgeting Under Future Development Scenarios
in Qiantang River Basin of China” published in Volume 57, No.4. |
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Dr.
L.K. Smedema (The Netherlands) received 'Best Paper Award 2008'
for his outstanding paper titled "Revisiting
currently applied pipe drain depths for waterlogging and salinity control
of irrigated land in the (semi) arid zone" published in Volume
56, No. 4.
Drs.
S. Khan, S. Mushtaq, Y. Luo, D. Dawe, M. Hafeez, and T. Rana received
'Best Paper Award 2008' for their outstanding paper titled "Conjunctive
Water Management Options: Examples from Economic Assessment of System-level
Water Saving through Liuyuankou Irrigation System, China" published in Volume 56, No. 5. |
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Dr.
G R Backeberg (South Africa) receiving ‘Best Paper Award
2007’ from President Lee in recognition of his outstanding paper titled
“Reform
of User Charges, Market Pricing and Management of Water: Problem or Opportunity
for Irrigated Agriculture” published in Volume 55, No.1. |
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Dr.
T.B.S. Rajput and Dr. Neelam Patel (India) receiving 'Best
Paper Award 2006' from President Lee in recognition of their outstanding
paper titled "Enhancement
of Field Water Use Efficiency in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of India"
published in Issue 54.2. |
Dr.
Hassan Ismail Memorial International Award (Discontinued) |
The
Dr. Hassan M. Ismail Memorial International Award has
been established with effect from the 16th ICID Congress at Cairo
in 1996 to be awarded to a young professional for the best paper on the development
of irrigation, drainage and flood control in Africa, submitted to an ICID congress
or ICID's Afro-Asian Regional Conference or an African Conference.
The award is made from the proceeds
of a fund established by the Egyptian National Committee with donations from
the family of Dr. Hassan Ismail and his admirers.
2002
prize-winning paper in PDF format
2001
prize-winning paper in PDF format
2000
prize-winning paper in PDF format
1999
prize-winning paper in PDF format
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