Profile: 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

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