From CORDIS:

Objective: The general objective of the WADEMED concerted action is to constitute an integrated knowledge base on water demand management experiences, including the comparison of modern and traditional irrigation techniques and their impact on effective irrigation efficiency, the designing and implementing of economic instruments and their impact on irrigated agriculture and the water resources, and new institutional arrangements to associate water users associations to water demand management. On each of these themes, an international seminar will be organised, yielding proceedings and policy briefs. WADEMED will particularly promote the dissemination of the acquired knowledge in the field of water demand management. A bilingual web-site will de developed to share the information to the general public A reference book will be edited to support this effort.

The aims of WADEMED are to establish a knowledge base on water demand management. It endeavours to:
1) synthesise and share existing experiences in the application of modern irrigation techniques, the shared management of irrigation systems, and in the application of water saving policies in the Mediterranean;
2) promote a common multidisciplinary framework for assessing the impact of improved irrigation technologies and water use efficiency policies in order to facilitate comparisons between case studies,;
3) provide policy recommendations for improving new technologies acceptability and effective transfer;
4) favour the emergence of regional expert groups, who can be called upon by policy makers, managers, researchers and farmers' groups for the analysis and evaluation of water use efficiency policies and technologies;
5) disseminate to a larger public the acquired knowledge on water demand and use in irrigated agriculture in the Mediterranean.