South Africans scoop ICID Awards

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Two South Africans were among the prize winners at a recent meeting of the International Commission on Irrigation & Drainage (ICID). The 58th International Executive Council meeting took place together with the US National Committee’s 4th International Conference of Irrigation & Drainage in Sacramento, in the US. Dr Abraham Singels, a principal agronomist at the South African Sugarcane Research Institute, received the WatSave Innovative Water Management Award 2007, while Dr Gerhard Backeberg, Director: Water Utilisation in Agriculture at the Water Research Commission, received the Best Paper Award 2007. Dr Gerhard Backeberg, Director: Water Utilisation in Agriculture at the Water Research Commission (right) receiving the Best Paper Award from ICID President Peter Lee. Dr Backeberg’s paper, titled “Reform of User Charges, Market Pricing and Management of Water: Problem or Opportunity for Irrigated Agriculture” was published in Volume 55, No 1 of the ICID Journal Irrigation and Drainage.

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