Ten Years of the Karachi International Water Conference

In 2013 Hisaar Foundation embarked on an ambitious trajectory of an international water conference of global significance held in Karachi every two years. In 2023 the Karachi International Water Conference (KIWC) is a fixture on the global and national calendar of water events, attracting the best minds on water, environment, climate change and food security from many countries and from all corners of Pakistan.

KIWC has become not only the place for discourse by a range of participants from governments to grassroots, but the space where Hisaar Foundation holds itself accountable every two years and takes inspirations for its own future direction and engagements. The Universities for Water Network, the Citizen’s Water Policy, the Think Tank on the Rational Use of Water, the Panjwani-Hisaar Water Institute, all emerged from the deliberations of these conferences and Hisaar Foundation put itself under timelines to deliver.

In the Sixth KIWC, the baton is being passed to the next generation of women and men who will bring more energy, innovation, commitment and new ways of engaging and influencing. A Council of Mentors is in place to guide these wonderful young people.