More than 130 people are killed in the conflict between hunter and herder communities in Mali. In this instance, Dogon hunters are accused of attacking Fulani herders.
Syrian governmental forces and their allies regain control from the Islamic State of the water treatment and pumping plants for the strategic town of al Khafsa on the Euphrates River.
According to the Nepal Defence Ministry, soldiers repulse attempts by rebels to blow up the sources of Kathmandu’s drinking water supplies at Shivapuri and Sundarijal. No details of these incidents are given.
A severe drought in Northern KwaZulu-Natal sparks “water riots’ in the town of Jozini over access to water and in opposition to the installation of water meters. Violence erupts after a community protest, leading to the arrest of 23 people.
In one of the few verified German tactical uses of biological warfare, German forces pollute a large reservoir in northwestern Bohemia, Czechoslovakia with sewage in May 1945. See also the entry for the Pontine Marshes in 1944.
A confrontation over a water spring between 1,500 police and residents of a village on Mexico City’s western outskirts leaves more than 100 police injured and five people arrested. It is the latest in a series of clashes over increasingly scarce water in the city, which draws much of its supply from surrounding states. Local governments say they are trying to extend municipal supply to the area; residents are afraid the objective is to take control over a local water…
Partly successful attempt to destroy a lock on the Welland Canal in Ontario, Canada either by Fenians protesting English Policy in Ireland or by agents of Buffalo, NY grain handlers unhappy at the diversion of trade through the canal.
At the end of 2014, work on the Ilisu Dam stops for four months after the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) kidnaps two of the project’s subcontractors. When construction resumes, the largely non-Kurdish workforce is escorted to the site by military tanks. Militants also target Diyarbakir’s Silvan Dam by placing explosives on the roads leading into the site, and security threats in the region cause construction delays.
The US bombardment of the Japanese-occupied island in June 1944 targets water supply points, resulting in severe shortages.
Information is leaked about an alleged secret agreement that would allow Egypt to build an air base in Sudan to attack the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Egypt is concerned that the dam, under construction in Ethiopia just upstream of Sudan on the Blue Nile, would reduce flows into its territory. The news reports, strongly denied by Egypt, claim that Sudan would allow Egypt to launch attacks if diplomatic efforts fail to resolve water sharing between Egypt and Ethiopia. The…