The 40th National Irrigation Congress organised by the Spanish Association of Irrigation and Drainage (AERYD) has been chosen as the setting for the official presentation to the sector of the 2nd REUSE EuroMed Congress, co-organised by the I-ReWater consortium and the Spanish Association of Irrigation and Drainage (AERYD) in collaboration with the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
This professional forum will take place between 17 and 19 June 2026 at the National Centre for Irrigation Technology (CENTER) and the National Centre for Agricultural Training (CENCA) in San Fernando de Henares (Madrid, Spain).
Javier J. Cancela, coordinator of I-ReWater and vice-president of AERYD, made the announcement yesterday during the closing ceremony of the association’s congress, inviting those present to participate in an international event that will focus on a topic of relevance and maximum topicality for the irrigation sector, namely reclaimed water, its use and constraints in agricultural applications.
The deadline for submitting papers and registering will open in the coming weeks on the official website of the 2nd REUSE EuroMed Congress.
I-ReWater was also present at the 40th National Irrigation Congress. During the opening day on Wednesday 11th, the partners of Campus Terra – University of Santiago de Compostela and University of Córdoba presented papers related to the topics ‘Water sources for irrigation’ and ‘Water governance for irrigation’.
Specifically, researchers Javier J. Cancela, Pablo Estévez, Iván Álvarez, M. Rodríguez-Febereiro and María Fandiño Beiro explained the results of their research on ‘Monitoring the quality of reclaimed water for hop cultivation (Galicia)’.
Ignacio Gómez Lucena, Emilio Camacho, Nassim Ait-Mouheb and Juan Antonio Rodríguez Díaz carried out a comparative analysis of ‘European Regulation 2020/741 on reuse and its national transpositions’. For this work, Gómez Lucena received the Best Young Presentation Award in the Water Governance section, the third award received by I-ReWater.
