In August 1992, bombs are set off along a Zhang River distribution canal collapsing part of the canal and causing flooding and economic losses. Violence continues in the late 1990s with confrontations, mortar attacks, and bombings. Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades. (See also entries for 1970, 1976, 1991, and 1999.)
