Two people are shot by police and paramilitary groups responding to the protests of citizens who have been without electricity or water for several weeks as a result of ongoing political fighting at that national level in Venezuela.
The Huang He’s dikes are breached for military purposes. In 1642, “toward the end of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), General Gao Mingheng used the tactic near Kaifeng, China in an attempt to suppress a peasant uprising.”
Chiang Kai-shek orders the destruction of flood-control dikes of the Huayuankou, Henan section of the Huang He (Yellow) River, in order to flood areas threatened by the Japanese army. West of Kaifeng, dikes are destroyed with dynamite, spilling water across the flat plain. Even though the flood destroys part of the invading army and mires its equipment in mud, Wuhan, the headquarters of the Nationalist government is taken by the Japanese in October. Floodwaters cover an area variously estimated as…
Continuing violence over the allocation of the Kaveri River between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Riots, property destruction, more than 30 injuries, arrests through September and October.
At least three deaths and dozens of injuries are reported during protests over land and water given away for a power plant in Sompeta in Srikakulam district in Andhra Pradesh, India.
Fergana (Yuan), the capital of China, surrenders after the enemy cuts off the city’s water supplies. “In the city of the king of Yuan there were no wells, and the people had to obtain water from a river outside the city, whereupon experts in hydraulics were sent to divert the course of the river, thus depriving the city of water, besides effecting an opening though which the city might be laid open to access. General Ir-shi wished to attack Yu-chong…
Caesar attacks water supplies during siege of Uxellodunum by undermining one of the local springs and placing attackers near the other. Shortage of water leads to the surrender of the Gauls.
During the US Civil War, Confederate forces near Yorktown use dams to flood the Warwick River and cut off Union troops. “The enemy is pushed behind a branch of the Warwick River in which they control the depths of water by dams. McClellan did not intend to pass that stream at that time, or at that point where the skirmish took place. But the troops, finding the stream fordable went over (under whose immediate orders does not appear) and the…
A dispute over a water well leads to a violent assault with a sword and gun. Two men are arrested.
A leader of the slave rebellion on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean, Toussaint L’Oueverture, says “The only resources we have are destruction and fire. Annihilate everything and burn everything. Block the roads, pollute the wells with corpses and dead horses.”