Fifty people are hurt during strikes called to protest power and water shortages. Protests are led by former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia over decrease in public services and deterioration of law and order.
Over 100 villagers and farmers from the local community near Lake Paron in Peru use force to remove employees and take over the outlet controls of the lake after the lake had been drained by nearly 50% by the operator of the controls, a subsidiary of Duke Energy International, for hydropower operations.
The Catholic Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka accuses the Sri Lankan army of shooting unarmed protesters and desecrating a church during demonstrations against water contamination. In the incident, at least six people are reported killed and more than 50 others wounded. Thousands of residents were protesting against the contamination of groundwater supply to 15 local villages, allegedly by chemical waste from a rubber glove factory.
An attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters on the Mosul Dam on the Tigris river leads to the death of 16 Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers. The dam provides electricity to part of the Anbar province, which was under IS’s control at the time. In August 2014, the dam is seized by Kurdish and Iraqi government forces from IS, who had taken control of it weeks earlier. The 1,200 families who are said to have been operating the dam mostly fled when…
An Iraqi activist, Su’ad Al-Ali, is assassinated while getting into her vehicle in Basra, Iraq. Mrs. Al-Ali had worked to bring better government services to her community, including safe and reliable drinking water.
An attack by a Pakistan-based group that killed at least 40 Indian soldiers has worsened tensions between the two countries, prompting Indian leaders to threaten to curtail water deliveries from rivers flowing into Pakistan. Curtailment of water deliveries could undermine the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, which stipulates the sharing of water resources between the two countries.
Local media report a struggle between Hajja and Amran tribes over a well located between the two governorates in Yemen. According to news reports, armed clashes between the two sides force many families to leave their homes and migrate. News reports confirm that authorities had arrested 20 people in an attempt to stop the fighting.
Fighting over boreholes in arid northern Kenya kills at least four people as competition for resources grows in the drought-hit region between the Murulle and Garre clans in El Wak, Mandera District.
In June 2015, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants shut off and redirect water flows below Ramadi Dam in order to facilitate military movements across the Euphrates River. As a result, communities downstream face water shortages.
In Nigeria, Tiv/Agatu farmers and Fulanis herdsmen clash over access to grazing land and water points. In April 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan orders military operations in Benue, Nasarawa, and Plateau states in an effort to reduce the violence.