The WG-HIST held its 12th meeting on 6 December 2009 at New Delhi in which 43 persons were present including WG members and observers. Dr. Kamran Emami (Iran) was nominated as the new Chairman of WG-HIST. The WG members profusely thanked Prof. Dr. N. Hatcho (Japan) for Chairing the WG since 2002 and for his active contribution, including organizing of history seminars. Prof. Hatcho was instrumental in bagging the first Best Performing Workbody Award (BPWA) for WG-HIST in 2005.
At the New Delhi meeting, Prof. Segura presented a print copy of a bilingual updated draft version on 'Reflections on the History of Irrigation and Drainage in Spain'.
The WG-HIST will organize a History Seminar on 'History of Irrigation in Eastern Asia', focusing especially on the use of modern water technology during the 61st IEC meetings in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. |
PROPOSED SEMINAR
Seminar on History of Irrigation on Eastern Asia, October 2010, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
SEMINARS ORGANIZED
Seminar on `Management of Historical/Traditional Irrigation Projects', September 2005, 19th ICID Congress, Beijing (China)
The 3rd World Water Forum
[Water and Cities]
History of Water : Lessons to Learn
Seminar on 'History of Water - Lessons to Learn from History' held on 17-18 March 2003 at Kyoto (Japan)
Seminar on 'History of Irrigation - Lessons from Failures in Irrigation, Drainage and Flood Protection Projects' held in July 2002 during 18th Congress, Montreal (Canada)
International History Seminar on 'Lessons to Learn from Historical Development and Management of Water in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions', Tehran, Iran, 2-3 May 2007.
International Workshop on History of Irrigation, Drainage and flood Control, Pavia, Italy, 2 September 2007.
Seminar on 'History of Water Management in Large River Basins and Droughts', Lahore, Pakistan, October 2008.
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 WG-HIST.
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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