ICID is bringing together representatives of all stakeholders involved in irrigation of all types and at all scales under the umbrella of World Irrigation Forum (WIF). It will include policy makers, experts, research institutions, non-governmental organizations, private sector companies and farmers, among others. The WIF is being organised in cooperation with the host Turkish National Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (TUCID) and in partnership with ADB, AWC, FAO, GWP, ICARDA, ICRISAT, IFPRI, IWMI, UNESCO-IHE, and The World Bank — Interview of Vice President Hüseyin Gündoğdu ...................................................................................................
The International Executive Council (IEC), the highest decision-making body of ICID, is vested with the management of the affairs of ICID. IEC meets every year to transact business of administrative and technical in nature. All technical workbodies of ICID meet prior to the Council meeting and these meetings are termed as Pre-Council meetings. ...................................................................................................
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Mardin as the venue provides opportunity to see irrigation systems acting as facilitators in GAP (South Eastern Anatolian Project), a multi-sectoral and integrated regional development project based on the concept of sustainable development with its basic aim to eliminate regional development disparities by raising people's income level and living standards. ...................................................................................................
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Prof. Dr. Veysel EROĞLU 
Dr. Gao Zhanyi
The Inaugural World Irrigation Forum will be held from 29 September to 1 October 2013 in the city of Mardin, in the heart of one of the oldest settled areas in upper Mesopotamia often considered an open air museum due to its historical architecture, most of which uses the beige colored limestone rock which has been mined for centuries in quarries around the area. 
