Mozambique targets dam in fight vs. South Africa

A 2004 Pentagon report on China’s military capacity raises the concept of Taipei adopting military systems capable of being used as a tool for deterring Chinese military coercion by “presenting credible threats to China’s urban population or high-value targets, such as the Three Gorges Dam.” China promptly denounces “a U.S. suggestion’ that Taiwan’s Military target the Three Gorges dam, leading the US to deny that it had so urged.

In an act to protest the destruction of fisheries from uncontrolled water pollution, fishermen in northern Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, dam a large industrial wastewater canal for 23 days. The wastewater discharges into the neighboring Shengze Town, Jiangsu Province, killing fish and threatening public health.

Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades between villages in Shenxian and Linzhou counties. In the 1970s, militias from competing villages fight over withdrawals. (See also entries for 1976, 1991, 1992, and 1999.)

A local militia chief is shot to death in a clash over the damming of Zhang River. Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades. (See also entries for 1970, 1991, 1992, 1999.)

In December 1991, Huanglongkou village and Qianyu village exchange mortar fire over the construction of new water diversion facilities. Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades. (See also entries for 1970, 1976, 1992, and 1999.)

In August 1992, bombs are set off along a Zhang River distribution canal collapsing part of the canal and causing flooding and economic losses. Violence continues in the late 1990s with confrontations, mortar attacks, and bombings. Conflicts over excessive water withdrawals and subsequent water shortages from China’s Zhang River have been worsening for over three decades. (See also entries for 1970, 1976, 1991, and 1999.)

Around the Chinese New Year, farmers from Hebei and Henan Provinces fight over limited water resources. Heavy weapons, including mortars and bombs, are used and nearly 100 villagers are injured. Houses and facilities are damaged and the total loss reaches one million $US.