Le Programme WATSAVE de la CIID

The CIID WATSAVE program

Président du Comité technique de l'AFEID, Cemagref, Division Irrigation

Abstract

In order to face the challenges given to irrigated agriculture by the Earth Summit of Rio in 1992, the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) has defined major priority actions, whose first is the Watsave plan for water conservation. This programme, based on an experts team representing main irrigating countries of the world, aims at providing recommendations for water conservation from experience acquired in these countries. A first questionnaire has already permitted to set priorities to be promoted: public sensitisalion, development of adapted water tariffs, integrated management of water resources, improvement of irrigation techniques, monitoring of environmental impacts, wastewater reuse.