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Europe is the world's second-smallest continent by surface area, covering about 10,180,000 square kilometers or 2% of the Earth's surface and about 6.8% of its land area. Of Europe's approximately 50 countries/states, Russia is by far the largest by both area and population, while the Vatican City is the smallest. Of these, 22 countries/States came together in 1995 to establish the ICID's European Regional Working Group (ERWG) with the motto "Comprehensive land and water management in European River basins for the sustainable development of the rural landscape". With 23.2 million hectares of irrigated land and 9 % of the world’s population, the ERWG today provides knowledge transfer and exchange of experiences in matters of trans-boundary waters and land management in European countries; co-operation of experts and organizations engaged in nationaland international objectives and development and promotion of border crossing projects and conferences.
The WG has many Sub-committees working on topics of regional/ local significance. The WG has brought out several valuable publications like:
- ERWG Letter
- European Sector Vision on Water for Food and Rural Development (Report) - In PDF format
- ICID Guide "How to work out a drought mitigation strategy" (Guideline)
- Water Resources Management in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovenia (Book)
- Diffuse Entries in Rivers of the Odra Basin (Research Report)
- Proceedings of several European conferences
- Spanish Version of the DVWK Guidelines on How to Mitigate the Drought Effects
The WG has organized 25 Regional Conferences so far on topics of current importance.
In addition to the below membership, National Committees of Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and Slovenia nominated their representatives.
The mission of ERWG is to promote awareness about critical ICID relevant water issues at all levels in Europe and to pay special attention to the environmentally sustainable water management in Europe.
Established : 1995Membership
| Sl. No. | Name | Country | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dr. Marco Arcieri | m.************* | Italy | Chair |
| 2 | Mr. Olli Matti Verta | ol************* | Finland | Secretary |
| 3 | Dr. (Mrs.) Irena G. Bondarik | ru************* | Russia | Member |
| 4 | Ms. Anu Nemvalts | an************* | Estonia | Member |
| 5 | Prof.dr.sc. Davor Romic | dr************* | Croatia | Member |
| 6 | Prof. Ing. Ion Nicolaescu | ce************* | Romania | Member |
| 7 | Mrs. Inmaculada Bravo Dominguez | ib************* | Spain | Member |
| 8 | Dr. John Martine | jo************* | Ireland | Member |
| 9 | Dr. Laszlo G. Hayde | l.************* | Hungary | Member |
| 10 | Mr. Pedro Eduardo da Cunha Serra | ad************* | Portugal | Member |
| 11 | Mr. Petra Hellemann | pe************* | Switzerland | Member |
| 12 | Dr. Sami Bouarfa | sa************* | France | Member |
| 13 | Dr. (Mrs.) Sabina Seidel | sa************* | Germany | Observer |
| 14 | Dr. Irina G. Pankova | ru************* | Russia | Observer |
| 15 | Mr. Peter Alexey Yurievich | pl************* | Russia | Observer |
| 16 | Mr. Ian William Makin | ia************* | United Kingdom | Representative |
| 17 | Mrs. Nato Khutsurauli | na************* | Georgia | Representative |
| 18 | Prof. Peter Kovalenko | pi************* | Ukraine | Representative |
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE+
ACTIVITIES-
ANNOUNCEMENT+
AGENDA/MINUTES/REPORTS/PUBLICATIONS+
| AGENDA (Previous) | MINUTES (Previous) |
Water Saving in Irrigation, Outcome of the Conference, 13-14 November 2019, Montpellier, France
PRESENTATIONS+
Gwangju, September 2014
CONCLUDED WORKBODIES/ TECHNICAL GROUPS+
GALLERY+
AWARDS+
ARCHIVES+
The European Regional Working Group (ERWG) of ICID was founded at the 46th IEC Meeting in Rome in September, 1995, and is acting under the motto "Comprehensive land and water management in European river basins for the sustainable development of the rural landscape". The tasks of ERWG can be summarized :
- Knowledge transfer and exchange of experience in matters of border crossing water and land management in European countries
- Co-operation of experts and organisations engaged in national, supranational and international objectives of water management and irrigated agriculture
- Development and promotion of border crossing projects and conferences
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