Suspected armed cadres of the Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) kill six Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) workers at Naidighee village in Naogaon, on April 25. According to police sources, the incident appears to be a continuation of a long-standing dispute over nine government water reservoirs and khas (farming) land in the village.
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.
Palestine News Network reports a water shut off to 17 Palestinian communities in Hebron, West Bank. The report suggests that the shut off was a purposeful act by Israel to force the movement of local Palestinians out of their homes to make room for more Israeli settlements.
Thousands of farmers breach security and storm the area of Hirakud dam to protest allocation of water to industry. Minor injuries are reported during the conflict between the farmers and police.
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.
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.
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…
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.
22 trucks are set on fire at dam sites in Turkey, in attacks attributed to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants.
Water for the capital of Libya, Tripoli is disrupted by an attack in southern Libya on a pumping station for the country’s ‘Great Man Made River’ by militants loyal to former Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi.