During a labor dispute, a pipeline carrying brine to the American Potash Plant in Trona, CA, is bombed, causing destruction of the pipeline and causing the fire hydrants in the town to dry up for several hours.
Violent conflicts break out over water resources in the villages Burna Legan and Taina Legan, and in other parts of the region, as drought depleted local resources.
Pausanias speaks of an Etolian town named Phana (perhaps the Paeanium of Polybius) besieged by the Achaeans, but without success. After an unsuccessful consultation with the Oracle of Delphi, the Achaeans accidentally discover the spring from which the besieged town derives its only supply of water. This being cut off, the town is forced to surrender.
Earth Liberation Front threatens the water supply for the town of Winter Park. Previously, this group claimed responsibility for the destruction of a ski lodge in Vail, Colorado that threatened lynx habitat.
Demonstrations over water and power shortages in Conakry, Fria, and Dinguiraye turn violent, with dozens injured.
Several injuries are reported and six police cars burned during a protest by members of the Elsipogtog First Nation in Canada over the impacts to local water resources from fracking operations.
A guard at water wells in the Um Burma area, Sudan is attacked and severely injured by paramilitaries.
A woman was killed in a dispute over the price of water in El Gedaref, Sudan. This violent clash triggers more fighting between familial groups, leading to at least eight more deaths and dozens of injuries.
A remotely detonated explosive on a road used for delivering supplies to the Silvan Dam construction site kills one civilian, a child. The bomb is thought to be planted by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and targeted at military vehicles.
Union of South African troops capture Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa in May 1915. Retreating German troops poison wells – “a violation of the Hague convention.”