Hundreds of farmers in the town of Varzaneh, in Iran’s Isfahan province, clash with police during a protest against the government’s decision to divert water from the area to another province. Iranian media say farmers smash a pipeline carrying water from Zayanderud river to neighboring Yazd province in an effort to prevent the water transfer. Dozens are reported injured and more arrested.
According to military officials, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) “detonated a high power explosive device,” destroying a water facility in the town of Algeciras, in southwestern Colombia, disrupting service to about 13,000 people.
Most of the villages and towns in the southwest portion of the Lugansk region in Ukraine lose access to their water supply after fighting damages a water main.
At least eight more people die in an ongoing conflict between the Fulani and Dogon communities in Mali near the town of Koro, sparked by access to water and grazing disputes. Since March 2018, the total death toll from this ongoing conflict is reported to be 25.
On a single day in Nigeria’s Plateau state, an attack by armed herdsmen leaves dozens in farming communities dead. This attack is part of ongoing violence that is in part triggered by access to water and land resources. Reports vary in the number dead; one cites 200 and another, 86.
Herders and farmers who used to coexist peacefully are now inflicting deadly wounds on each other over fights driven by water shortages in the Sahel region of Chad.
In Tamil Nadu, India, a 33 year old man dies as the result of a fight that broke out over water. India is experiencing a heat wave with temperatures reaching higher than 50 degrees C/120 degrees F.
In Ranchi, India, one man stabs six other people due to water shortages. India is experiencing a heat wave with temperatures reaching higher than 50 degrees C/120 degrees F.
Four months after internationally known Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceres is murdered, a second woman and environmental activist from the same organization is also murdered in Honduras. The second murdered woman, Lesbia Janeth, was working to stop the construction of a dam in La Paz, Honduras.
Samir Flores Soberanes, an indigenous environmental activist from Mexico, is killed in his home for his opposition to the Proyecto Integral Morelos, a thermoelectric plant and pipeline that threatened local water and land resources. The Moreles state prosecutor claims that the murder has nothing to do with the thermoelectric plant project. The People’s Front in Defence of the Land and Water for the states of Morelos, Puebla and Tlaxcala (FPDTA) state that the only enemies that Soberanes had were those…