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About Winrock Water  Winrock Water offers an opportunity to obtain and share information and ideas in the field of water resources. WW intends to bring together a wide range of professionals working in one or more fields related to water resources who would like to share their ideas and experience. The body of international literature and publications on water resources is vast. For many users, especially the practitioners in the field, the literature is inaccessible. Either their budget, or working environment and location does not allow ready access to the array of publications, or they do not have the time to identify and evaluate the publications that might be of use. WW attempts to alleviate this problem by making freely available selected leading reference materials, research and discussions of major issues in the water resources field through the Internet. This service will be valuable for students, practitioners, and professionals engaged in interdisciplinary work or who would like to discuss their ideas in a wide forum. This service is especially targeted to people in developing countries who may not have access to reference materials and colleagues by other means. Winrock International provided seed funds for Winrock Water to be established. The opinions expressed on this website are solely those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Winrock International. The Winrock Water management structure is as follows:
Director: David Seckler
Deputy Director: Andrew Keller
Manager: Gelsey Bennett Editorial Board:
Mohamed Ait Kadi
Richard G. Allen
Jennifer Davis
Harald D. Frederiksen
Andrew Keller
Jack Keller
C J Perry
Mary Renwick
David Seckler
Mohamed Ait Kadi
Mohamed Ait Kaid is presently President of the General Council of Agricultural Development. In this position, he has supervised the preparation of Morocco's 2020 strategies for Agriculture and Rural Development. Previously, as Director General of the Irrigation Department he was in charge of the development and implementation of the National Irrigation Program. He has served as Governor and founding member of the World Water Council and President of the organizing committee of the first World Water Forum held in Marrakeck in 1997. Dr. Ait Kadi serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Center of Agronomic Studies in the Mediterranean, a member of the International Water Academy, Oslo - Norway, and honorary vice-president of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID). Lately, he has joined the Board of Advisor of the World Agricultural Forum. He is Professor at the Institut of Mediterranean Agronomy, Bari, Italy. Dr. Ait Kadi is author of numerous publications in the field of rural development, irrigation and water management.
Richard G. Allen
Richard G. Allen specializes in estimation of evapotraspiration and irrigaiton water requirements and hydrology of irrigated systems. He is a professor of Water Resources Engineering at the University of Idaho and has previously taught engineering courses at Iowa State University and Utah State University. Allen is co-editor of the ASCE Practices Manual 70 Evaportranspiration and Irrigation Water Requirements and co-authored the Food and Agriculture Organization publication "Crop Evapotranspiration" that serves as an international practice standard. Allen's research spanning 30 years has focused on developing physics-based approaches and tools to better assess, quantify, and solve water-related problems. His current work focuses on evapotranspiration over large areas using satellite-based energy balance computation. Allen holds a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from Iowa State University and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering and Civil Engineering from the University of Idaho. Allen has served as a consultant to the United Nations, the World Meteorological Organization, USAID, and governments of Portugal and Spain. He has provided research and teaching missions to India, Pakistan, Jordan, Yemen, Morocco, Egypt, and Turkey. Allen currently represents the United States to the International Commission on Irrigation Drainage and Flood Control for the Working Group on Sustainable Crops and Water Use.
Jennifer Davis
JENNIFER ("JENNA") DAVIS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and a Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment with Stanford University. She holds a master's degree in public health and a PhD in environmental management and policy, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Davis' research interests focus on the water and sanitation sectors, with particular emphasis on cost-effective, sustainable water supply and sanitation (W&S) service delivery in developing countries. She served on the UN Millennium Development Task Force for Water & Sanitation , and is currently on the Technical
Committee of the Global Water Partnership. Current research projects focus on decentralized, private-sector delivery of W&S services in several countries; synergies between sustainable sanitation planning and both economic development and environmental protection strategies; and the design of post-construction support programs for rural water systems. Prof. Davis teaches courses on water and sanitation planning, infrastructure privatization, the theory and practice of sustainable development, and research methods. She has conducted fieldwork in more than a dozen countries, including most recently the Philippines, Mozambique, and Bolivia.
Harald D. Frederiksen
Harald Frederiksen is a consultant in water resources management. His recent clients include the World Bank, ADB, IDB, IWMI and governments and international consultants in South America, the Middle East and Asia. His assignments have included assistance with institutions, financial issues and strategy for water resources management; privatization of urban services; national and basin resources management and draft water laws. He serves on the ASCE committee to draft generic water laws for two forms of U.S. rights. From 1984 to 1995, Mr. Frederiksen worked with the World Bank, eight years of which he was Head of the Water Resources Unit providing technical support on water resources matters to Operating Departments in the Bank’s South and East Asia Regions. He has also served on various Bank policy and program committees and authored several Bank Technical Papers on institutions, drought planning, and basin water accounting. From 1967 to 1984, he served as President of Frederiksen-Kamine Associates and rose to Executive Vice President and Manager of D&R Corp managing services in international development and related fields of agriculture, engineering, resources planning and agency organization in Afghanistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Iran, Jordan and Venezuela and in the US. The prior eight years he spent in planning, design and construction of the California State Water Project. Mr. Frederiksen received a BSCE Utah State University and a MSCE from the Univ. of Minnesota and is a Fellow American Society of Civil Engineers, Member of the International Commission of Irrigation and Drainage, and Associate Member of the International Association for Water Law. He has authored numerous papers in journals and presented at international workshops and conferences on issues in the field. Andrew Keller
Andrew A. Keller is civil engineer and principal author of the effective efficiency concept, which links water quality implications and water recovery to the monitoring and evaluation of real water savings. Dr. Keller has more than 25 years of experience in computer assisted design and management of irrigation; economic water resources and irrigation project research, planning and design; sprinkle and trickle irrigation system design; development of irrigation design manuals; irrigation scheduling and software development; irrigation operation and maintenance studies; hydrologic modeling; water conservation monitoring and analysis; and water litigation. Dr. Keller's international experience with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), USAID, USDA, and Utah State University includes integrated river basin planning and development of computer-assisted irrigation project design in India; microcomputer model implementation in Morocco; irrigation project design in Indonesia; main system management review in Pakistan; strategic research for water conservation in Egypt; global water research in Sri Lanka; and integrated water resources project design in Jordan. Dr. Keller is partner and senior vice president of Keller-Bliesner Engineering. He served as an IWMI Fellow and is presently Professional Associate of International Development Enterprises. He also serves as Adjunct Professor at Utah State University. Dr. Keller has authored or co-authored more than 50 technical papers and reports and developed eight major computer programs. Additionally he conceived and directed development of the World Water and Climate Atlas produced and published by IWMI. Dr. Keller has a PhD in Irrigation Engineering from Utah State University and was recognized as the 2003 Distinguished Alumnus of the Biological and Irrigation Engineering Department. Jack Keller
Jack Keller is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Keller Bliesner Engineering. He is currently involved in consulting activities related to efficient irrigated agricultural development, river basin and irrigation water management and conservation planning, monitoring and verification, and assisting smallholder farmers utilize low-cost improved irrigation technologies. He is Professor Emeritus in the Biological and Irrigation Engineering Department at Utah State University, where he was Department Head between 1980 and 1986. Prior to joining Utah State University in 1960, he was the Chief Irrigation Engineer for W.R. Ames Company, a leading manufacturer of irrigation equipment in the U.S. During his tenure at the university, he taught and carried out research and consultation on sprinkle and trickle/drip irrigation. Through his public and private activities, Keller has provided advisory services on irrigation matters in more than 60 countries and is recognized as an expert in irrigation technology transfer and the problems associated with improving irrigated agriculture in both developing and developed countries. He has led multidisciplinary teams to do irrigation project planning and evaluation and regional irrigation sector analysis. He is the author of more than 78 technical papers, 50 major consulting reports, five handbooks and two textbooks, the most important of which is Sprinkle and Trickle Irrigation Design. He has received four patents. He was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1967, and has been an active member of both the ASAE and ASCE where he has served on various irrigation committees. He is also a member of the Irrigation Association, US Commission of Irrigation and Drainage, and serves on the Board of International Development Enterprises, an NGO that focuses on rural poverty alleviation through a market creation approach to development using irrigation as an entry point. C J Perry
C J Perry is a prominent advisor in water resources management, water resources economics, irrigation systems and project analysis. He is Visiting Professor, Economics of Irrigation, at Cranfield University in the United Kingdom. Previously, Dr. Perry was Deputy Director General of International Water Management Institute and headed IWMI's Performance Assessment Program. During a twenty-year career at the World Bank, among other roles, he headed the Bank's Irrigation Unit in India. Dr. Perry's international experience includes assignments in Bangladesh, Central Asia, Egypt, India, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Turkey. He was member of the International Panel of Experts, Project on Sustainable Water Resources Use, Aral Sea Basin. He is a member of the editorial board of Irrigation and Drainage. Dr. Perry has authored a large number of articles and reports on irrigation and water pricing issues. Further publications on water pricing and role of economic instruments in irrigation water management are forthcoming. Dr. Perry holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, and a MSc and PhD in Economics from the University of Stirling. Mary Renwick
Mary Renwick is a water resources specialist and economist with over 18 years experience developing, managing, and implementing water resource projects, programs, and initiatives and has worked in 16 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia (and a with number of Native American tribes). Dr. Renwick has worked with donors, governments, NGOs, local communities, and in academia. Since 2005, Mary has served as Director and Senior Program Officer for Winrock International’s Water Innovation Program. Prior to joining Winrock, Mary was a Senior Fellow in Water Policy and Economics at University of Minnesota and an Adjunct Professor in Applied Economics. She also was as Fulbright Visiting Professor in Interdisciplinary Water Management at Khon Kaen University in Thailand. Dr. Renwick holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from Stanford University and is the author of over 25 books, peer-reviewed articles and papers. David Seckler
David Seckler is an economist specializing in water resources. Among several other interests in this field, he has written on the theoretical framework for analyzing river basins and led research on projections of world water demand and supply. Dr. Seckler served as Director General of the International Water Management Institute from 1995 until his retirement in 2000. Previously he taught at Colorado State University and at the University of California (Berkeley). At Winrock International he established and directed the Center for Economic Policy Studies, where he acted as senior advisor to developing country governments. Dr. Seckler was Director, International Center of Agricultural and Resource Development and Founding Co-Director, Colorado Institute for Irrigation Management, at Colorado State University. Among his numerous overseas engagements, he served as Senior Development Policy Advisor for the United States Agency for International Development in Indonesia and as Project Specialist for the Ford Foundation in India. Dr. Seckler is author and editor of three books and over 50 articles and holds patents in sprinkler irrigation and waste recycling systems. Dr. Seckler has a BS and MS in economics from the University of Denver and a PhD from the London School of Economics.
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