The president of the Codazzi Waterworks Labor Union, Aldo Mejia Martinez, is shot and killed by five unidentified people. Six months later, his successor, Engeniano Sánchez Díaz, is also murdered. The murders may be linked to a larger trend of homicides in Colombia of trade-union leaders and activists.
Two bombs detonate at a water collection point near a village in India. No one is injured from the explosions.
Three police officers are injured after a bomb explodes from underneath a water truck in Vavuniya District, Sri Lanka.
Water and gas pipelines in Pir Koh, Pakistan are destroyed, disrupting the delivery of these supplies to nearby communities. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) takes responsibility for the explosion.
A bomb explodes near a water pump station in Quetta, Pakistan. No one is injured in the explosion.
Two workers fixing a water pipe in Baghdad, Iraq, are killed in an event that is reported as either a drive-by shooting or a bomb explosion. The pipeline was being fixed from an attack a month earlier.
A mortar is fired at a water treatment plant in Baghdad, Iraq. No casualties are reported.
The director-general of water projects in Badush, Iraq is shot and killed by gunmen.
Two people are wounded when a bomb explodes at a local watering hole in Jijel, Algeria.
A bomb placed along a road kills two workers and wounds five others as they lay water pipes in Tal Afar, Iraq.