K-IV vs. Indus Canals

A Nation at War With Its Own Water Needs

In the annals of Pakistan’s development failures, few projects are as telling, or as tragic, as the K-IV water supply project. Conceived as a lifeline for Karachi, K-IV has become a symbol of bureaucratic paralysis, political neglect, and technical mismanagement. Now, as it limps toward completion two decades late, it faces a new and far more existentia…